While at Book People with my girlfriend I noticed a new instruction manual improperly placed in the humor section, The Zombie Survival Guide. Before I had a chance to read through it my girlfriend managed to steer me safely away into the nearby classics section where I found myself distracted by some excellent Nabakov. Okay, just kidding... I don't want to make my girlfriend sound like she has something against my lunatic obsessions. In fact, in an effort to induldge me, she suggested I purchase the zombie guide, but I decided it could wait as I had already loaded up on discount fiction. Plus, stuff about zombies scares me.
Interestingly (interestingly to me, that is), I'm actually working on a short story about zombie survival, though my story is not a how-to guide, but rather about someone so obsessed with zombies that he doesn't notice the zombie-like routine of everyday life. Or something like that. It'll be less banal sounding in story form, hopefully.
