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    By Saul Tanpepper

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    About this ebook

    The Undead return in this short dark satire that ties together global warming, unemployment and zombies. *** After an historic confluence of political, social, economic and climatic events lowers employment while raising the dead, a man in a soup line considers making the ultimate sacrifice...for a job.

    eFiction magazine calls Saul an author armed with "a PhD and a whacked out sense of humor."

    Saul spent his formative years in a leaky century-old house overlooking the Erie Canal in Upstate New York. His bedroom was a refurbished attic, which he shared with all manner of creatures, not all, he is convinced, flesh and blood.

    After bouncing around the US and Europe for several years, he settled down to pursue a career in the sciences, opting to study the mysteries of human molecular genetics. But even positions as an experimental biologist, teacher, manager and biotech entrepreneur couldn't keep him from his true passion as a storyteller.

    He now writes speculative fiction full time from his home in the San Francisco Bay Area. Although his house is now attic-less and waterproof, he continues to be haunted by a variety of creatures, including a wife, kids, four dogs, three cats, six chickens, a wayward rooster, and one very grumpy possum. They are all flesh and blood.

    Except, maybe, for the possum, which he's convinced is the reincarnated spirit of Jack Torrance.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSaul Tanpepper
    Release dateMay 6, 2012
    ISBN9781476081052
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    Saul Tanpepper

    Subscribe for new releases & exclusive deals/giveaways: www.tanpepperwrites.com Saul Tanpepper is the specfic pen name of author Ken J. Howe, a PhD molecular biologist and former Army medic and trauma specialist.  Titles include: The best-selling epic post-apocalyptic zombie series ZPOCALYPTO - A WORLD OF GAMELAND SERIES The best-selling post-apocalyptic horror series BUNKER 12 The international technothriller series THE FLENSE (a BUNKER 12 companion series) The climate disaster survival series SCORCHED EARTH - A CLIMATE COLLAPSE SERIES Short story collections: Shorting the Undead & Other Horrors Insomnia: Paranormal Tales, Science Fiction, and Horror Visit him at www.tanpepperwrites.com

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    • 3/5
      This was a decent little story. It had its funny moments, which is saying something for a zombie story. Interesting characters and premise (black mold, zombies that don't eat your brains but steal your jobs... a different kind of apocalypse). But it was quite short. I thought it could have been expanded.

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