Tell us a bit about your story, "Dead Like Me." What’s it about?

It’s a set of instructions, to a hapless protagonist, about how to survive the zombie plague by joining it.

What’s was the genesis of the story–what was the inspiration for it, or what prompted you to write it?

The story was my attempt to get into the fabled BOOK OF THE DEAD III, then being compiled by John Skipp and Craig Spector; the tangled history of that volume being what it was, it didn’t see print until the book became MONDO ZOMBIE, by Skipp alone, a decade later.

The question that prompted it was, if Romero-zombies don’t breathe, how do they track their victims? Certainly not by scent! (Zombies smell badly in more than one sense.) If not by scent, how? If we know the method, can we fool them? And from there I got to, what will it cost?

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