Zombie Jamboree

by Jennifer Rardin

Genres: Contemporary Fantasy; Paranormal; Urban Fantasy

Synopsis

A reality show host is in for a night she never expected when zombies take over her show, in this short story from author Jennifer Rardin.

Release date: September 19, 2011

Publisher: Orbit

Print pages: 25

Sample

Rindall Hunt leaned against the tallest tombstone in Browen Cemetery. Naturally the name carved across the base of the obelisk spelled BROWEN. Herbert John (born 1825, died 1899) slumbered on the south side of the plot. As far as Rindall knew, he’d never risen on Halloween, called or not. Neither had his second wife, Deborah Jane, RIPing on the opposite side of the stone. But his first love, Elizabeth Marie, who’d died in childbirth at the age of twenty-four, moved around so often that nothing grew on her grave but weeds.


Rindall slammed his hand against the monument, wincing at the clacking sound that reminded him his digits hadn’t quite fleshed out yet. He bellowed, “Rise and shine, Bets. We’ve got work to . . .