Z is for Zombie by Philip Hansen
Publisher: Self-published
Genre: Horror
This 21 page story is available as an ebook from Amazon. More reviews can be found on Goodreads.
It’s the end of the world as we know it… and nothing is fine.
Mack, Skinny, Navarette and El Tee are Echo Squad, soldiers on the frontlines of the zombie war. Faced with an army of zombies that hungers for all flesh to be eaten their tiny group must survive deadly decap zombies and wicked clever roamer zombies in time for an aerial assault that will change the face of the battleground against the living dead.
Z is for Zombie is an action-packed gun-porn short story in the world of the living dead.
This is a man’s story. A story worthy of a man cave and the story to read between Halo 3 matches. I wasn’t surprised to learn that the author is an avid gamer (as am I) and the utter pwnage of the characters over the zombies in the novels was epic…like purple epic…like I just beat the hidden cow level epic. Okay, okay. Seriousness. This is a story about soldiers…in a zombie apocalypse. They talk like soldiers and there is quite a bit of military jargon used in the story. I loved the dialogue. The descriptions are so vivid. The pacing and action is super fast. The plot and characters feel so authentic and intense that I just have a need to read the story out loud – and then I realize that I probably shouldn’t in front of my kid. I don’t want to explain what “headshot” means.
Warning: excessive cursing violence, and gore.
I do have one complaint – the text is in a stupid font and non-adjustable. Besides that, this is a pretty awesome short story.
This dystopian short short is descriptive to the point where the metaphors and imagery does slow the pacing of the story. I would recommend that you read this story without distractions and truly let yourself be absorbed by the world the author paints with her images. Not much is known about Nadia’s “normal” life in the beginning of the story, as she is abducted along with her sister within the first couple of pages. The situation is bleak for Nadia and the people treat her more like a slave than a princess. For someone who enjoys “darker” stories, I enjoyed the beginning chapters of Nadia’s tale. I did notice one missing word from a sentence (72%)- but besides that both the formatting and grammar are good. And as a warning, Episode One does end on a cliffhanger.
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