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Mr. Evin’s Zombies

June 11, 2010 by Dan Zappone Leave a Comment

Zombie

Mr. Evins leaves the shopping mall with his doctor’s bag only 25 minutes before the first outbreak. He walks to his car, enters it, starts the engine, and pulls forward out of the space he had backed into only 1440 seconds before the first infected leaps for the place his bumper was, missing it by a foot. He begins playing a Mozart CD 2 minutes later or, 22 minutes before the … [Read more...]

Magic… Or So I Gathered

October 16, 1995 by Dan Zappone Leave a Comment

I walk up the steps of the comic books shop. I peer inside the door and think “Why are there so many people here at this time of the evening?” Cautiously, oh so cautiously, I slowly open the door and go in. There are people sitting at tables, on the floors, crammed, packed and otherwise stuffed into this place. I make my way to the counter, the woman at the counter says to … [Read more...]

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