By and copyright of Owen Quinn author of the Time Warriors and Zombie Blues
More Zombies, more trouble. Welcome to book 2 of Zombie Blues who give us their view on the world and life from behind undead eyes. This time round meet Diabetic Zombie, Racist Zombie, the Ice Queen and why is there a zombie with no teeth?
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Perceptions Zombie
What do you see when you look at me?
You, to me, are lit up like a stray dog set on fire by mindless thugs in the drunken hours of a late night in a graveyard. Your flames fill my world enticing me forward like a sailor to the siren song. I am helplessly drawn to you like an addict to heroin. I see you as the menu chargrilled by the hatred of Mother Nature.
What do you see when you look at me?
Am I the nightmare you see when you worry about monsters under the bed?
A monster, slobbering and decaying before your very eyes as its deadly jaws snap at you like a great white shark? I am the ultimate abomination from your deepest nightmares.
I can see it myself when this body passes by something reflective like a shop window. From in here I see what I am now on the outside but that’s not the real me. You’re seeing a distorted vision of me built from prejudice. Is it my fault you can’t hear me screaming at you to kill us all? I see the person I used to be. I’m a hapless victim of an unfortunate incident. I should be pitied then put out of my misery.
Can you not see me at all? Is there any semblance of who I was peeking out from behind this rotting flesh that you can see? Do these demon eyes cloak my soul entirely when you stare into my eyes from beyond the reinforced glass that separates us?
It seems that things haven’t changed much despite the bloody apocalypse.
Here’s a thing you haven’t been told yet but I’ll tell you now.
Haven’t you noticed that while our flesh decays (an unfortunate side effect of the heartless tendrils of Mother Nature I’m afraid) that our teeth do not?
Apart from Lily, my denture less friend you met earlier, when was the last time you saw a zombie without a good set of gnashers? I can see that rolling over in your heads like watching clothes in a spin cycle in a washing machine. It hadn’t occurred to any of you before now? Even with all those movies and that television show, The Shambling Undead?
When I look at you I didn’t expect to see that; indolence and lamb mentality. It must be a side effect of that social media my other friend spoke about. Nobody thinks outside the box any more it seems.
It’s simple really. Mother Nature only picked the humans with a full set or nearly full set of teeth. Using her…oh I don’t know…her nature magic (feel free to insert your own adjective there) she made sure her weapons would be the most effective means of completing her plans are secure.
All teeth and gums are reinforced like steel. They will never fall out until all humans are dead. Even if you cut our heads off the jaws are still animated. Add to that our eyes are always intact; how else can we hunt you lot down without eyes and teeth? Perk of the job you might say.
The Time Warriors and Beyond 