by Jeff Strand
In character as Veronica K-Aws (renamed because of a rights issue), Alicia pointed her twin machine guns at the horde of zombies, smiled, and pulled the triggers.
Zombie guts began to fly everywhere, and Justin had never been happier.
Another Epilogue
Bernard Whittlescutt opened his front door, stepped outside, and froze.
Graffiti! All over his car!
Highly artistic graffiti, but still…
He looked around for the perpetrator.
A kid jumped up from behind some bushes.
“Serves you right, Stinky the Clown!” Patrick shouted before Justin pulled him back out of sight.
Acknowledgments
You don’t write a book alone. I mean, sure, you write most of it alone, sitting in a dark, gloomy room all by yourself. Everybody else in the entire world is out doing fun stuff, but you can’t go, because you have to finish your book. As your tears drip onto the keyboard, you’ve never felt more alone.
Still, you don’t do everything yourself. No matter how many times you read and re-read and re-re-read your book, there will be mistakes. So thanks to my mighty group of test readers: Tod Clark, Michael McBride, Jim Morey, Rhonda Rettig, and Donna Fitzpatrick Stinson. Thanks also to my agent, Stephanie Kip Rostan, and my agent’s mighty assistant, Shelby Boyer. Thanks to Annette Pollert-Morgan, Stephanie Graham, Alex Yeadon, Kathryn Lynch, Beth Oleniczak, Chris Bauerle, Elizabeth Boyer, and the rest of the Sourcebooks crew, especially those who could sabotage this book and add “Duuuhhhh” to the beginning of every sentence.
And thanks to the whole cast and crew of the movie Chomp, especially writer/director/my wife Lynne Hansen. I didn’t use any anecdotes from the set in this book, but maybe if I ever write a sequel…
About the Author
Jeff Strand wrote the script for the short film Gave Up the Ghost, which has zombies in it for a few seconds, and was an associate producer on the short zombie film Chomp. In the event of an actual zombie attack, he would run around crying and screaming, “We’re all doomed! We’re all dooooomed!” and contribute very little to everybody else’s chances for survival. He’s written a bunch of other books, including I Have a Bad Feeling about This and A Bad Day for Voodoo. Check out his website at jeffstrand.com.
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