Monthly Archives: May 2021

Read Chapter 8 Chapter 9. Night Descends on Scarlet Scarlet kicked at blown-down branches and trundled along the dimming streets. Plainfield’s streetlamps were coughing to life but their lights were feeble flickers against the dusk. She adjusted her shoulder bag, …

Read Chapter 7 Chapter 8. Time to Do the Right Thing There were only a few zombies waiting at the Mighty Offal. Still, Scarlet made a show of walking slowly to the end of the line, twirling her boa. Chunk …

Read Chapter 6 Chapter 7. An Enemy Who Looks Like a Friend The dreams-cape took pride of place at the front of the Elysian fashion stall, adorning a zombie-quin mounted atop a pedestal ringed with tea candles. Scarlet shambled closer, …

Read Chapter 5 A Friend Who Looks Like an Enemy The crowds thickened as Scarlet moved toward the market, and she felt herself squeezed. “Hey, careful,” she said to the small of a back. “Ow! Watch it!” she told an …

Read Chapter 4 Zombies Roam the Street Market day! Plainfield Avenue teemed with zombies. Zombies teetering and tottering, wobbling and weaving, schlepping and shuffling down the cobbled, mobbed, and mudpuddled promenade. At their feet crawled stray parts trying to find …

Read Chapter 3 Forewarned is Forearmed There are lots of terrible places to be in the world. Stuck at the bottom of a well. Mired in a leech-infested bog. Trapped in the back seat on a long cart ride with …

Read chapter 1. Read chapter 1: Happy Unearthday, Scarlet Chapter 2. The Haggis Project If you had asked Scarlet to name her favorite smell, she would have had a hard time answering. Rotten eggs … swamp gas … sweat … …

Read the introduction. Read last week’s entry, the introduction to “Scar and the Wolf.” Happy Unearthday, Scarlet Who are you, really, when you turn 13? Yesterday you were a kid. Today you’re stumbling into adulthood. Part of you is ready …