Zombie Tea Party

A collection of stories, most short and some very short, all about people trying to live in a zombie-filled world.

A man gets forced into a partnership with a skinhead, another gets thrown from an oil rig and ends up temporarily blind.. he hopes. In another, a mom estranged from her daughter drives across town to her burning neighborhood to attempt to save her, a man invites an attractive woman and her annoying kid into his bunker, because he hopes to get with her... This collection has plenty of variety in characters and situations all centered around trying to survive in the world after the zombie apocalypse happens.

It also has all the gore and ugliness you'd expect from the genre. Quite a few of the stories inject a bit of dark humor. But really like most good zombie stories, it is more about the characters. There was a lot of touching moments in this, in between you know, blood-soaked action scenes and people running for their lives. As they figure out how to survive, or just realize that there won't be consequences for their actions now, the characters do some messed up things to one another.

Also like most zombie stories, you have to deal with abrupt endings, and a bit of repetition in the fact you always know things just aren't gonna end well. There are flash fiction stories in here, but still.

Great gore and action, and good characters to give it all meaning. I'm not the greatest fan of flash fiction, but they were OK in this because they were treated a bit like a dark joke, usually with a gory punchline. I found the writing to be strong throughout. Pretty fun horror collection.