Review: The Other Side of Zombie
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 2, 2011
A lot of zombie lore has the mindless munching and crunching with the rest of us looking to stay out of their way.  Makes sense.  Zombie Bits turns the focus on "us" with zombie as the background and, in a few cases, on the one zombie itself and even a family.  Scott Nicholson and friends (Joe McKinney, Jack Kilborn, & Jonathan Maberry) have put together a volume of zombie short stories that think outside our normal visions.  Bleeding Ink has a newsman with an obsession to get the story out when the world is going to the dogs.  Need is the memory of a zombie and his last live encounter with girlfriend Page and his truck.  You have the carnival tales with Carnival Knowledge and the not to be missed Murdermouth.  And my favorite You'll Never Walk Alone, the story of boy and his religious pa holding out in a church.  Joe McKinney turns in a fabulous story of Survivors.  Jack Kilborn's A Matter of Taste, the worst nightmare for a zombie family.  Jonathan Maberry presents for your reading pleasure Zombie Apocalypse Survival Scorecard.  Zombie Bits shows the other side of zombie with flowing emotions or lack of and how we deal with a bad situation on the inside of us.  For all you zombie lovers out there, this collection of short stories is well worth your time.  And, do check the others works of these writers.  They deserve your attention.