Left out of ‘Scary Stories for Zombies’ is any explanation of how zombies type. Or maintain a publishing industry. This is intentional, because I haven’t a clue, either. :offering tray: Canape?
Patreon Microfiction: Scary Stories for Zombies.
Tag: microfiction
Patreon Microfiction: All That The Market Has Borne.
With regard to ‘All That The Market Has Borne:’ look, it’s just market forces at work. You have a valuable product that can be produced by multiple sources, thus making it difficult for even a cartel to form; and the production values are both high and restrictive, so strip-mining the resource isn’t going to work. That pretty much means high wages for the specialist laborers who have the most critical role in the enterprise. Straightforward, really.
Patreon Microfiction: Shambling Back From The Edge.
“Shambling Back From The Edge.” Hrm. I seem to like playing around with the idea of free-willed Undead. I dunno why.
Patreon Microfiction: Daywalkers.
I don’t know what the ‘daywalkers’ need the stuff for, honestly. Probably a dietary aid. You don’t see very many fat vampires, right*?
*The only one that I can think of off the top of my hat is that one dude from Blade. …And now I gotta watch the opening to that movie again.
Patreon Microfiction: ‘Okay, So It Was ALSO A Pickup Line.’
Would ‘Okay, So It Was ALSO A Pickup Line’ work in real life? …No? Look, sorry, I was never exactly what you’d call good at picking up girls. My wife almost had to hit me in the head with a club before I realized that she was interested in me. So I wouldn’t use this site as a font of dating wisdom, sorry.
Patreon Microfiction: ‘Eating Well By Doing Good.’
There’s already one story in the world of ‘Eating Well By Doing Good,’ and there could be others. I’m just not sure who I’d sell them to. They don’t exactly fit in the usual categories.
Patreon Microfiction: ‘It’s Nice That He’s Nice.’
I imagine that being around Mad Scientists – even the ethical ones – might be many things; but it would never be really what you’d call restful, right? Too many things smoking or about to blow up or just had blown up and so forth. Not exactly what one would call a sedate afternoon.
Patreon: Microfiction: ‘You’ll Be Sorry.’
‘You’ll Be Sorry’ is based on a thought I’ve had. To wit: everybody talks about the Great Old Ones, and how corrosive they can be to other species. Nobody ever asks if they want to be.
Patreon Microfiction: ‘And Yet, Here It Is.’
Personally, if I was in the ‘And Yet, Here It Is’ universe I wouldn’t want the MacGuffin. It just doesn’t seem safe, you know what I mean? You just wouldn’t know what it might do.
Patreon Microfiction: Table for One At Le Déchets.
As ‘Table for One At Le Déchets’ might suggest, the idea of a civilized ghoul interests me. I suppose it’s the subversion of expectations. Or maybe I simply like how Lovecraft’s ghouls got pretty cool as he kept working on ’em. Either way…