“It used to be that death, maybe even a long or violent one, would be the worst thing you’d ever have to face.”
Horror author Michele Lee explores the tangled relationship between the living and the undead.
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TITLE:
ROT
WRITER:
by Michele Lee
GENRE:
Horror Fiction
DESCRIPTORS:
Horror Fiction Books, Relationships, Zombies, Love, Hate, Greed, Chapbook, eBook.
CHARACTERS
Dean, New security guard at the Silver Springs Care Community.
Amy, A new zombie who gets a job doing paperwork for Dean.
Patrick, A zombie and Amy’s friend.
SUMMARY:
Dean is a former merc, newly employed at Silver Springs Care Community. Most zombies retain their intelligence and personality — although not their civil rights as they’re merely property — when they are brought back from the dead. It’s Dean’s job to put down a zombie should it ever go rouge.
Amy was brought back by a husband who couldn’t let go but quickly realized he couldn’t stand being in the same room with her. So he paid to have her sent to Silver Springs. In an effort to make herself useful and stay off going rouge, she volunteers to do paperwork and help shape up Dean’s office. Then Amy brings her friend and fellow zombie, Patrick to work at the office.
Patrick pushes Amy into telling Dean about the abuse they both suffer at the hands of some of Silver Springs’ attendants. Angered, Dean enlists them to go through the files of all the staff and residents when they find something else . . . something not expected . . . something horrible.
Before he can properly begin investigating Amy disappears just like the others. Not put back to rest. Not gone rogue and put down, not escaped, not released into her husband’s custody . . . just disappeared. And for the uncomfortable love both men feel for her, Dean and Patrick risk everything to find her.
APPEAL:
I loved reading Rot and highly recommend it. It’s a zombie story that primarily explores the relationships between Dean and Patrick as well as Dean and Amy.
“She helps me stay sane, and I help her — you know.”
Michele Lee has a fully realized world where a small part of the populace can bring a loved one back from the dead for a price and return them to death, again for a price. A world where storage facilities will hold your unwanted zombie for a modest fee. It feels so real that I was heartened to hear that there may be more stories set in the world of Rot.
Amy, Patrick and Dean are fully realized characters. You really feel a loss when Amy turns up missing. And then that’s when the story turns towards the bonding of two very different men, uneasy with each other, but both needing to find out what happened to Amy.
It’s a powerfully moving story.
The chapbook has illustrations that the ebook doeen’t have. You can order both from the Horror Mall. The ebook can be downloaded in either PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format, MOBI (for Kindle and MobiPocket Readers) or as an EPUB (Another leading format).
NOTES:
You can catch up with Michele at her website: Michele Lee: Dark Fiction Author or her blog Michele Lee’s Blog or her book review website Booklove.
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Edited to include a forgotten website URL.
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