Blood Soaked and Contagious Issue #1

(The first issue of the Frank Stewart series. It is being replaced by the entire novel on Smashwords and the Kindle Store. As of 10/1/11, it is no longer available as a separate entity.) I am not going to complain to you about my life. We’ve got zombies. They are not the brainless, rotting creatures we’d been led to expect. Unfortunately for us, they’re just as smart as they were before they died, very fast, much stronger than you or me, and possess no internal editor at all. Claws. Did I mention claws? I kill them for a living, but it’s as much a vocation as a freelance career choice. It helps me, helps my neighborhood, and the people I consider to be my family of choice. What’s more? I’m really good at it. My life had a nice rhythm, but the military bungled an attempt to wipe out an organized bunch of undead near a major commuting route into DC. The formerly-human survivors relocated. Now they’re less than an hour’s stroll away from where I live. We’ve got something they want, and they’re coming to get it. Didn’t the Greeks consider pride a deadly sin?