By Darren Sant and Sam Lang
Trestle Press
Review by: Rob Walter
Review posted 11/08/2011
While we don’t normally review short stories, we did read Severed In The Beginning by Darren Sant and Sam Lang.
The story starts out in a prologue with a bird flying overhead and switches to a description of the Zombie Apocalypse. “The end of the world came not with a bang or a whimper, but with the use of diet pills.” Hell of a way to start the description of the end of the world, eh?
The story then changes to a diary format following a boy named Zac coping with the Zombie Apocalypse the best he can as he becomes a man and a leader of a small band of survivors.
This is a good story that involves the readers without driving the story home with the normal “blood and guts” gore of your normal zombie tale. It has a more deft touch using the psychological impact and the readers imagination to carry the reader along.
I recommend this short story to lovers of intelligent zombie horror.
