Love in the Time of Zombies: A Dystopian Romance
By Lynn Messina
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Lynn Messina
Lynn Messina is the author of eight novels, including The Girls’ Guide to Dating Zombies and Fashionistas, which has been translated into 15 languages. Her essays have appeared in Self, American Baby, and the New York Times, and she’s a regular contributor to the Times’s Motherlode blog. Lynn lives in New York City with her husband and sons. You can visit her at http://lynnmessina.com/.
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Love in the Time of Zombies - Lynn Messina
Love in the Time of Zombies
It all goes back to the moment a zombie catches fire in my living room.
The fire isn’t my fault. It’s Katya Yusenoff’s. She’s the one who wrote the article for Zombopolitan magazine called Zombie Xanadu: 6 Tips for a Lively Date with the Living Dead,
which provides a few simple guidelines for the perfect evening. Among her recommendations: Light softly-scented candles. Put out flowers. Sauté cow’s brains in an herbes de Provence sauce.
I followed every tip to the letter, and now the roses are wilted, my date is on fire, and I can’t find my cat.
This disaster is entirely Katya’s fault, but I really should have known better. Seventeen years after the H1Z1 virus turned 99.9999 percent of all human males into zombies, I know well enough that zombies aren’t boyfriend material. They’re putrefying lumps of rotting flesh that cause unnecessary traffic jams during the height of rush hour by lumbering into the street without looking both ways (or either way).
And yet. Katya’s article had a winning, carefree tone that made dating a zombie seem like a madcap lark, a screwball comedy waiting for its Carole Lombard moment. She argued her case so well: Modern zombies are completely harmless to human females, they are widely available and they aren’t afraid of commitment.
Okay, I thought. I’m an open-minded, empowered 23-year-old woman in the post-male era. I’m not afraid to try new things. Moreover, I’m a journalist. Trying new things is in my job description.
Well, this is certainly a new thing, I think, as the blaze sizzles up my zombie date’s arm, and I stand there, trying to figure out what I should do first—put out the fire or find Twinkle Toes.
On paper, the former seems like the more pressing problem—obviously, I don’t want my small Brooklyn apartment to go up in flames, especially with two pissy roommates. But given that H1Z1 zombies are moist lumps of decaying flesh, they are surprisingly hard to ignite. The fire is less a soaring conflagration than a slow smolder, which my date ignores as he continues to scrape cow’s brain off herbed toast points, blissfully unaware of the potential risk to life and limb. His demeanor, of course, is the product of millions of dead neurons rotting