Rock Candy by Devon Monk

Author:Devon Monk [Monk, Devon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-939853-07-3
Publisher: Odd House Press
Published: 2017-09-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

We did not got this.

I found three gnomes with missing toes that night. Abner, who I’d propped on the dash of my truck so he could confirm his previous nights’ munchie victims, went through the five stages of zombie grief: denial, acceptance, hunger, more hunger, and knock-knock jokes.

Seriously.

“Gnock-gnock.”

“Nope.”

“Gnock-gnock.”

“Shut up, Abner.

“Gnock-gnock.”

The three other zombie gnomes I’d had to tag and bag were stowed on the passenger side floor of the truck. They chanted, “Gnock-gnock, gnock-gnock! Gnock-gnock!”

“No.”

“Gnock-gnock,” Abner asked again.

Fine. “Who’s there?”

“Police.”

Why did this feel like a trap?

“Police who?”

“Police let me bite somebody again.”

Oh, the peanut gallery squirming in the duffle on the floorboards thought that was hilarious.

“Okay, that’s it. You’re getting the box.”

I picked him up, careful to keep my fingers away from his mouth, stuffed him in the box, then set him down on the floor with the others.

Silence. Finally. I still had a few more houses with yard decorations to zombie proof before I went back to the station. So far it didn’t seem like the zombie gnomes had spread the bite-and-switch very quickly or very far.

Lack of knees really slowed down total zombie domination.

Maybe we’d caught the zombie situation in time before it became something too annoying for words.

“Gnock-gnock,” four voices called out at once.

Or maybe not. I swallowed a groan and turned the radio up louder.

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