The Real Monsters
5
By ornwen
This story doesn’t just thrill you with a zombiepocalypse from beginning to end, but tries to determine a meaning to the dead doing the biologically impossible- what was death itself thinking when it sent back the dead to feast on the living?
In keeping with the central premise of all great zombie stories that living humans are the real monsters, the story leaves the initial outbreak to describe the eventual restart of human settlements when zombies decompose too much to be a threat. But how to start over? One group tries a community based on compassion and sharing, with disastrous results. Our survivors don’t all survive their fellow humans, and the ones that do must flee as if zombies were chasing them again.
A satisfying zombie tale, well worth the long read.