Review: Don't go outside...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 13, 2011
Very nice! I generally abhor short stories with a fiery, stinging passion and avoid them like I avoid that neighbor I can't stand who, when she stops to talk to you, you know you're in for AT LEAST an hour before you can claw your way away from her.For those who are unaware, the "Zombie Tales" books are side stories to the author's Don of the Living Dead, which I believe is a full novel.The concept of the "Zombie Tales" books, perspectives (in separate novellas) of different residents of an apartment building set in the Don world during an impending zombpocalypse was such a novel (heh, novel, I made a joke!) concept, that I overlooked my general dislike and decided to take a chance.Not only was this very well written (some minor editing complaints, though), but it was surprisingly well done in so few pages.Robert DeCoteau has written Theodore Granger very well as a paranoid, whiny, complainy, germophobic agoraphobe who has not been outside in ten years, honestly for understandable reasons.So, of course, he WOULD pick the onset of a zombie apocalypse as his first venture out in ten years...