Turnip
Of course, momma’s prob’ly up and about again downstairs. With daddy. That’s how it works, the fella on the news said. He didn’t ever use the z-word, but Sally’s seen enough movies to know what’s what. To know what it means when they come back.
I started working on this one with a much longer story in mind but sort of stalled after writing the opening scene. When I stumbled across a flash fiction contest with a limit of 500 words (this ended up at exactly 500) I decided to dust it off and see if I could make it work as a complete story.
The original had the main character going out into the world of the zombie apocalypse. But, once I decided the whole thing would take place in the close confines of the attic, it became much easier to come up with a story arc small enough to tell in just a page and a half.
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