The Zombies of Lake Woebegotten by Harrison Geillor

Author:Harrison Geillor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction - Science Fiction, Graphic Novels: General, Fantasy, Humorous, Horror, Graphic novels, Satire And Humor, Horror & ghost stories, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction - General, Horror - General, Horror Fiction, General
ISBN: 9781597801966
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Published: 2010-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

8

Afterward, pillow-talking—if you could call it pillow talk when there was no pillow, and it technically wasn’t even a bed—Rufus said, “That was awesome.”

“As usual,” Julie said. “I love sleeping with young men. So much passion, so much energy, so much stamina—my favorite.”

Rufus smiled, despite the melancholy he felt stealing over him, as it did more and more lately. “I’m glad we get together this way. It takes my mind off… well, everything. For a little while. The whole situation. Even with everything I saw in the cities, it didn’t really become real for me until Otto died, and changed. He was… He was my uncle. It wasn’t like living in a movie anymore after that, it was just living.”

“He was a sweet man.” Julie touched Rufus’s cheek—pretty much the tenderest gesture she’d ever shown him—then rose from the leather-covered platform Rufus privately thought of as Fuck Station Zero.

“I don’t know if I’d call him ‘sweet,’ but he was family.” Julie and Rufus had enjoyed a few conversations on the subject of family since first hooking up, not long after the New Year. “Losing him was sort of a wake-up call, and then Dolph killing that guy because he thought he was a zombie, and now with this bus crash, who knows how many zombies wandering around out in the snow… There’s never going to be ‘normal’ again.”

“We’ll find a new normal. I still say we can make this place a green zone.” She considered. “Let me show you something.”

Rufus wondered if she was finally going to break out some of the stuff in her basement for their private use—despite the surroundings they had totally vanilla sex, which was in keeping with his limited experience, but he was eager to expand his horizons, something Julie wasn’t that interested in, saying if you worked at an ice cream store you got really sick of ice cream, but heck, that didn’t mean you wouldn’t let your lovers have a little ice cream every once in a while, did it?—a hope that swelled as she walked into one of the more cluttered corners of the dungeon and picked up a long rattan cane, okay, not his first choice, but he had an open mind…

Julie used the cane to snag a heavy dropcloth draped over some tall object in the corner, and pulled it down, revealing a rounded iron cage about the size of a phone booth…

…with a drooling male zombie inside, arms and ankles in leather-and-chain restraints, mouth filled with a ball-gag from out of that old classic movie Pulp Fiction. The zombie was pretty messed-up, with big black patches of frostbite on its face and half its nose missing and bulging eyes, and it grunted and banged itself against the bars of the cage—sealed with a mighty padlock, Rufus was glad to notice—trying to get at Julie, chewing on its gag.

Unable to come up with anything that seemed like an appropriate response, Rufus fell back on the neutral politeness of his upbringing: “Well, that sure is interesting.

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