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Fleshed Out

The devastated urban landscape slowly fell apart. Like most of the inhabitants of earth, the structures of civilization were also slowly decomposing and devouring themselves until eventually it would be gone.

However, nature also has its unexpected quirks. While most of humanity had become mindless flesh-eating zombies, one zombie still maintained his self-awareness. His name was George.

“I think I’ve lost the taste for rotting flesh,” George told his zombie-dog Frank (Frank was not self-aware). “I really don’t care for it anymore, and sometimes I think I’m just gorging on human flesh to fit in, you know?”

Frank’s tail wagged off.

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The Case of the Gypsy Amulet

Continued from The Case of Doctor Walton and The Case of Zombie O’Malley.
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The Case of the Gypsy AmuletI draped my overcoat over my zombified friend, Shamrock O’Malley, and we quickly stole away to my residence, stopping only twice to recover various pieces that fell away from his rotting frame.

“It occurs to me,” he said after we had reclined in my study (and I had draped a towel over his chair), “my resurrection stems from a magical amulet that I won off a gypsy woman in a game of chance.”

“So we find the gypsy to restore your flesh anew,” I said.

“That’s absurd, Walton! No, we need something more potent than an itinerant gypsy magic for this!”

To be continued…

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The Case of Zombie O’Malley

“I say, my dear Walton, what are you doing?”

The voice was familiar, though a bit more gravelly than I remembered. I turned around to find a half-decomposed Irishman whom I recognized as my deceased colleague, Shamrock O’Malley. “My goodness, what has happened to you, Shamrock?” I blurted out.

“Isn’t it obvious, Walton? I have risen from the dead through unnatural (most likely magical) means.”

“B-but that’s impossible!”

“How long have you been with me, Walton, and you still don’t—” Shamrock’s jawbone detached from his skull. He sighed and reattached it, “Quite an inconvenience being of the living dead.”

I shuddered.

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Like Zombies Are Totally Whatever

“Did I just hear ‘brains’ said with an inflection indicating the possibility of cognitive thought!?” George the self-aware zombie began scanning the mass of doddering undead.

“Brains?” one of the zombies said again. Her hair, though blood-soaked, was blonde with blonder highlights. Her clothes disheveled and also blood-soaked were designer by the looks of it. She had the orange hue of spray-on tan.

“Finally, a zombie I can have an actual conversation with!” George declared.

“Brains?” the she-zombie said, and stumbled passed George without even a glance.

Apparently, even when zombies, valley girls still say everything in the form of questions.

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George Attempts Reason

“Look. All I’m saying is that if the living over in that house are well supplied with ammunition and are easily taking us out, we might as well just go look for an easier target. A defenseless small child, perhaps?” George the self-aware zombie tried to reason with his non-self-aware brethren.

“Braaaaaaaaainssssss,” hissed the zombies as they hobbled toward the house in question, getting decimated by heavy gunfire in the process.

“I know they’re incredibly tasty, but listen to reason!” George pleaded.

“Braaaainnnnnnnns.”

“I’m beginning to think you guys don’t have any brains! Fine! Get shot for all I care!”

“Brains?”

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George the Self-Aware Zombie

“You ever get the feeling like all this ‘feasting on the flesh of the living’ may end up being detrimental to the stability of society as we know it?” George the self-aware zombie offered as general conversation to his fellow zombies as they munched on the remains of a CPA.

“Braaaaainsssss,” came the standard zombie reply to any of George’s inquiries.

George continued as if it was a legitimate answer to his question. “I just don’t know if this gluttonous and decadent lifestyle we have for ourselves is sustainable. Eventually the living will become a scarcity.”

“Brrrrrainnnss,” replied the other zombies.

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