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    Zombies Don't Need Bodyguards: A YA Short Story
    Zombies Don't Need Bodyguards: A YA Short Story
    Zombies Don't Need Bodyguards: A YA Short Story
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    Zombies Don't Need Bodyguards: A YA Short Story

    By Rusty Fischer

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    Let’s face it: Rex Limburger, Jr. is a wimp. He knows it, the whole world knows it, especially the bullies. But today Rex stops being a wimp. Because today he’s brought... a bodyguard. A zombie bodyguard. And nothing will ever be the same. But not in the way Rex thinks...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRusty Fischer
    Release dateJun 29, 2013
    Zombies Don't Need Bodyguards: A YA Short Story
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    Rusty Fischer

    Rusty Fischer is a full-time freelance writer, multi-published ghostwriter and the author of dozens of published books across a variety of genres, from nonfiction to fiction, including his popular A Living Dead Love Story series from Medallion Press. Visit him at www.rustyfischer.com to read more!

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      Book preview

      Zombies Don't Need Bodyguards - Rusty Fischer

      Zombies Don’t Need Bodyguards:

      A YA Short Story

      By Rusty Fischer, author of Zombies Don’t Cry

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      Zombies Don’t Need Bodyguards

      Rusty Fischer

      Copyright 2013 by Rusty Fischer

      Smashwords Edition

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      This is a work of fiction. All of the names, characters, places and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.

      Cover credit: © tankist276 - Fotolia.com

      * * * * *

      Author’s Note:

      The following is a FREE short story edited by the author himself. If you see any glaring mistakes, I apologize and hope you don’t take it out on my poor characters, who had nothing to do with their author’s bad grammar!

      Happy reading… and happy holidays!

      Enjoy!

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      Zombies Don’t Need Bodyguards:

      A YA Short Story

      Booger Johnson’s fist flies into my face, making my already black eye even blacker. Is that even possible? Can it be, what, double black? Or maybe it will be purple now? Or blue? Or black and blue and purple, all mixed in together in a masterpiece of pain?

      I fall back against the monkey bars, head pounding against the rusty steel, bleeding from the fat lip Booger’s buddy Jimbo gave me when out of the blue Skeeter Morrison trips me with her

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