Tag: R140
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Real Zombie Drugs
(Originally posted on October 13, 2021.) In 2010s, people started referring to flakka (aka gravel) and bath salts as ‘zombie drugs.’ This was because of the way these drugs affect users. This is going to irritate the Living Dead cult. They want the Z-word reserved for the undead. Apologies for that in advance. The characters…
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No Need for Airborne
NatGeo once got into the infected zombie game. Experts talk about rabies going airborne. There is no need for an airborne version of a lyssavirus, though this concept is obviously popular. An airborne with aggression and violence as symptoms would burn so fast that it would extinguish quickly. Contagious pathogens have a track record of…
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Virus that Sounds like Soda
In America, some people fear small rodents can carry rabies and infect others with the virus. This is utterly untrue for classic rabies and most lyssaviruses. But there is one known to infect small rodents: Mokola. There are many publications on the Mokola virus available on the internet but most are super dry and boring…
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Zombie Stuff!
In Book One, both Chris and Matt demand the infected aren’t ‘zombies’ because they are not dead. This is a common perception. “Zombies and the Infected … what’s the difference?” Zombiepedia’s definition of the ‘Infected’ The History of Zombies The zombie apocalypse genre begins with Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968). The American media…
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That ‘70s Show with Zombies
Excerpt from Book Six, Clash© A cloud of marijuana smoke filled apartment A’s living room. Chris sat in the recliner while everyone else sat shoulder-to-shoulder on the couch or on the floor. They missed Pez for these sessions. Family obligations required him to move to a motel to be with them. “I have a question,…
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Phebe’s Nightmare
Cut out of Book Six, Phebe’s Nightmare Sequence. The wretched face of an infected man. He charged at Phebe. She swung the machete, cutting off his head at the neck. Another man raced at her. He wore torn-up fatigues and a helmet – he was the big zom from the marina who nearly killed her.…
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