Monster's Ball

It was an epidemic. 1

The myth of creatures crawling in the cinema -- never the person you'd give your life for scraping their viral fingertips against the paper-thin door you stand behind... waiting to take theirs.2

The kitchen knife between your fingers, painted dried blood from weeks of the inability to remove the stain from skin -- or from memories. Too familiar with the sensation of razoring through neck flesh of neighbors, best friends, your father. Knowing the sawing of spine.3

To know that although they were the infected ones, craving your warm flesh...4

you're the one who became a monster.5

Author notes

I, to the core am a devotee to zombie horror movies. To put it blatantly, if a movie titles ends in "... of the Dead", 97% I own it. Never before had the images disturbed me until I had a vivid dream last night that such an infections 'zombie plague' had occurred in real life, and that in order for survival, I had to kill a lot of the people I love who were infected by the only way that my extensive zombie knowledge had taught me.. from severing their head from their spine. I know sounds really disturbing, it was, and I was never happier to wake up from a dream.

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  • Thorn-on-the-Rose
    September 24, 2008

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    I love it!! it's sooo well written!! great job. Zombies rock!! I love them too!! hehe, great job =DD

    -Dani


  • disturbed-dreamer
    August 22, 2008

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    Zombie movies are awesome and this drabble was great and creepy. How can I not something that has the words 'blood' and 'knife.' Ha. Anyways, this was great and I would like to see more of your work! =]


  • trekkergirl
    August 3, 2008

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    UUUUGGGGGG zomie movies. Smile. I have watched a lot of them over the years myself. Good read tho


  • tallblondie gold member
    July 12, 2008

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    You've captured the horror in this well - and they do say dreams are often the best inspiration. Thank you for your entry and good luck!


    • Smell Before Rain
      July 12, 2008
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      Thank you for the comment and I just wanted to compliment you on your profile pic -- Making Applesauce at MIT, right? It's one of my favorites. Thanks again.

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