A Small Zombie Problem by K.G. Campbell

Author:K.G. Campbell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2019-06-03T16:00:00+00:00

She retreated a little, with a regretful expression, as if she hadn’t meant to scare him. August pulled himself together and stood, dusting off his pants. He contemplated the girl, wondering what to do next, and realized there was something pitiful about her. She had the air not of some violent monster, but of a lost puppy. August felt a wave of sympathy for this strange creature.

“Your name,” he said, “is Claudette, right?”

The girl nodded enthusiastically, clods of dirt dropping from her hair, and again she emitted that wet, whispering sound. It was almost as if she was attempting to communicate.

Curiously, the noise seemed to come only partly from the child. Some—other—layer of her voice came from a different place, the same place as the half-remembered echo he’d “heard” on his first foray into the cemetery. It was as if the sound came, August realized, from somewhere inside himself.

It was an unsettling sensation.

“Look, Claudette,” August explained as kindly as he could under the circumstances. “You can’t come with me. My aunt Hydrangea is a highly nervous person. One little butterfly sends her into a shrieking panic. So I’m pretty sure she would not react well to an unexpected visit from some little dead girl.”

Claudette blinked.

“I think it’s best,” said August, wincing sympathetically, “if you return to…um…wherever it is you came from.”

The girl moved forward with a hopeful look. The eyeball was pressed against August’s chest.

The boy grimaced and sighed. He took the eyeball. Now, you’ve probably never handled another person’s eyeball. I certainly haven’t. But I’m sure we can both imagine how they might feel…perfectly awful!

“I’m sorry about this, Claudette,” said August with a resigned sigh.

He swung back his arm and hurled the thing with all his might—plunk!—into the dark, swirling river.

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