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    Gingerbread House & Joey's Undead Dog
    Gingerbread House & Joey's Undead Dog
    Gingerbread House & Joey's Undead Dog
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    Gingerbread House & Joey's Undead Dog

    By Kater Cheek

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    Two weird, funny, horror stories.
    "Gingerbread House," which originally appeared in Weird Tales in 2010, involves a reality show in which contestants live in a house made of cake in the middle of nowhere. A competition to find the best baker turns into a challenge to survive when the contestants lose contact with the rest of the world and have cope with the rapidly approaching winter.
    In "Joey's Undead Dog," a boy discovers his necromantic powers when his dead dog, Buddy, comes back to life. Joey enlists his best friend Conner to help him, as they both flee the zombie roadkill who now find Joey irresistible.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKater Cheek
    Release dateSep 18, 2011
    ISBN9781465825575
    Gingerbread House & Joey's Undead Dog

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      Gingerbread House & Joey's Undead Dog - Kater Cheek

      Gingerbread House

      &

      Joey’s Undead Dog

      By Kater Cheek

      Gingerbread House

      &

      Joey’s Undead Dog

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright Kater Cheek

      2011

      Table of Contents

      Gingerbread House

      Joey’s Undead Dog

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      Gingerbread House

      By Kater Cheek

      August 27th

      This house stinks of cinnamon and nutmeg and clove and ginger. The smell clings to everything, even to this journal. My hands are always sticky, and the walls are humming with bees both inside and out. We had a rainstorm last week and the water dripped down the windows, melting holes in the sugar-glass. I hate this house.

      It’s been three weeks since the missed shipment. Josh thinks they got delayed by a storm or something. Brian says that it’s probably a funding issue, like maybe the production company got bought by another company, and the show is up in the air right now. Craig doesn’t say anything, but he tore down one of the cameras to try to make a radio. He can probably do it, he’s geeky like that, but it’s a waste of time. Even if he can get it to work, it won’t mean anything. If they wanted to get us, they know where we are.

      Brian’s been talking about walking to civilization, but I was like, what civilization? We don't even know where we are, and anyway, it’s easy to get lost in the woods. Brian goes out anyway, to scout around he says, but he always comes back before dark. When it’s dark here, it’s really dark, and you can’t see your hand in front of your face. I haven’t gone farther than the outhouse. I’m not the outdoorsy type.

      I reread my journals from before the missing shipment. All those stupid competitions, the bake-offs, the architecture contests. I was so proud of myself that I’d outlasted all the others on account of my professional baking skills. Makes me want to take the earlier me and shake her, make her trade places with that lucky bitch Theresa who sprained her ankle and got a free ride home. Theresa cried when she left, because she wanted that prize money so badly. She can have it. I just want to get out of here.

      I ran out of tampons this week. It’s bad enough we have an outhouse and have to bathe at the stream, but now I have a colossal nuisance that’s mine alone. We all stink, and the house smells like a combination of gym socks and snickerdoodles.

      September 1st

      Spent most of this week baking loaves to wall off Josh’s bay window. He got mad at me; he’s so proud of it. I like Josh, and the window is pretty, but the sugar-glass is all melting in the humidity, and I’m tired of bees flying in. Josh and Brian were talking about allergies, and

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