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A Zombie Short Story Win

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My short story, Hokahey, about zombies at Custer’s Last Stand, is a winner of the 11th Tales of the Zombie War’s contest.

If you are looking for some zombie Old West military action, its up on thier website for free and in its entirety.

Click here  to read it

Excerpt:

They left on the fastest ponies in the camp and chased after the attacker of the village. For days, they followed the trail. They found two of the tribe’s kidnapped children, infected and wandering the tall grass.

They had attacked a white man riding alone across the range and were slowly eating his face. Sage tried to save the youngsters but Black Knife was firm. The beasts were dispatched and left at peace. The trail led them deep into what the white man referred to as Montana Territory where they came across another attack. A ranch house in a beautiful valley contained a family of five. The stench of death hung heavy there. Two had been massacred, their body parts chewed and scattered. The other three had been infected.

When the hunting party rode off, all five victims were at peace and being consumed by the raging fire they had started in the house.

That was days ago and the trail was turning cold. Yellow Eagle was cleaning the rabbit when the riders appeared on the horizon. Black Knife watched them grow closer and released the riders to be Sioux braves.

He could see brightly colored paint on the braves’ faces. Feathers and plumage fluttered in the breeze as they rode. Numbering 15, they and their ponies were adorned for war….

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End of the World is Still Scheduled for This Week

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Four days to go until the Mayan Doomsday – and there’s a rush on for bomb-proof survival bunkers (complete with leather sofas and plasma screen TVs)

If you’re seriously concerned about the world ending on Friday, then this could be just the ticket. Ron Hubbard has built a luxurious underground bomb-proof shelter in Montebello, California, with a leather sofa, plasma TV and wooden flooring – just in case the Mayans’ predictions come true.

‘I’ll spend three days underground in the shelter just to be safe. If you have a shelter you might as well go in it.  I don’t think anything will happen but you never know.’

The Mayan civilisation’s Long Count calendar which began 5,125 years ago in 3113 B.C. ends on December 21, 2012 – sparking fears among a small group of people that a major catastrophe could happen.

Read more:

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Tiny Plinker: the 22CB

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Odds are you have fired a cap gun once or twice in your life. Most likely, if you are reading this, you have
fired a 22 once or twice in your life. But the thing is, have you ever fired a 22 that sounds like a cap gun? Well if not, the 22CB may be something to look into.

The 22 CB Cap (short for “conical ball cap”) is a series of very small 22-caliber rimfire cartridges that have been around since 1888. On average, full-powered rounds for the caliber are typically 29-grains of bullet that travel at 700-feet per second. They are smaller than 22LR (40gr, 1100-fps), smaller than 22-Long (29gr, 1000fps), and smaller than even 22-Shorts (29gr, 800fps). They are however larger and more powerful then 22BB (18gr, 750fps), the Mexican-made Aquila Colibris (20 gr, 375fps) and Super Colibris (20gr, 450 fps) rounds.

They have been kept around for almost 150-years for their versatility. They allow clean and efficient hunting and pest control (better than the Colibris and 22BB) but without the loud cracking sound and extreme range of the larger 22L/LR round.

Read more in my column at Firearms Talk

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Looter Repellent

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The recent hurricanes of this year, Isaac and Sandy, have brought to light that worse trait of post-storm recovery: looting.

Looting is the act of taking goods (stealing) during unusual circumstances such as the recent hurricanes, or other natural or manufactured disasters when police are unavailable or otherwise occupied. It’s simple: when the lights go out alarms don’t work. Damage to storefronts and homes left vacant by evacuating families often create access points through knocked-out windows, doors, and walls, that further invite people with sticky fingers. After Hurricane Sandy one eyewitness said, “”I saw this guy stealing televisions from a nursing home right on the boardwalk on Tuesday, and the workers were chasing him up the street….Every time I saw him he had a different TV.”

Simple, affordable, and effective is the key to a good anti-looter arsenal. Any firearm is preferable to nothing at all. In (legal) firearm-scare Queens, residents had to use “baseball bats, booby traps – even a bow and arrow – to defend themselves” from looters.
Read the rest in my article on Firearms Talk

Zombie Killing Guide

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Kotaku has a great guide to killing zombies

For instance:

“The Zombie Skull : Although the majority of the populace is aware that destruction of the brain is the only known method to terminate an undead attacker, most are confused as how to actually accomplish this task. Many people mistakenly believe that it is “just like cracking an egg.” Nothing could be further from the truth. The protective case known as the skull is one of the hardiest structures on the human body and can withstand a significant amount of abuse. The hair, muscles, and scalp covering the skull all provide additional insulation for the brain, which is itself covered by a fibrous, protective layer known as the dura mater. Many victims have engaged in undead combat believing that destroying the brain would require only a slight rap on the head, only to have the attacking ghoul finish the battle.

In order to inflict a wound severe enough to stop a zombie in its undead tracks, you need to strike with enough force that your blow cracks the skull and penetrates the brain. This act is much easier said than done. Not only must you fracture the skull, you need to cause a severe depressed or compound fracture, in which shattered pieces of bone are driven into the cranial tissue. Ideally, your strike should be powerful enough that the weapon itself penetrates the dura mater and enters the brain cavity. A follow-up blow to the same target area is often required to ensure adequate brain trauma.

Never assume that simply because your blow has landed and penetrated the skull, your strike has incapacitated your attacker. Numerous accounts of combat engagements have involved zombies who had been dealt a seemingly terminal blow but continued their assault, much to the shock and dismay of their human opponent. This can be attributed to a strike that has inadequately penetrated the braincase. Incidents such as this are not unique to zombie altercations. A well-known historical example of such an occurrence is the assassination attempt of Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky.”

(Read the rest at the link above)

Have you read Chimera-44?

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“Sundra Trench – Indian Ocean-

A Russian research vessel is studying giant amphipods that live in one of the deepest parts of the sea. Or so the world thinks…

All the crew wants to do is get back to Jakarta and some well-deserved shore leave. But something is quickly approaching the rear of their ship. The crew will soon find out that their shore leave is canceled and the Hell brewing in the deepest bowls of their ship will soon emerge and bring with it the destruction of humanity as we know it.

Chimera-44 is the exciting prequel novelette to the hit novel Last Stand on Zombie Island by Christopher Eger. See how the end of the world began. “

You Can Download it for FREE at Smashwords (Click link here! ) with Online reading in Java or HTML, or download in Kindle, Epub, PDF, RTF, LRF, Palm Doc (PDB), or Plain Text format

Did I mention that its F R E E ?

Great Review of LSOZI

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Trashcanman, a Top Reviewer on Amazon.com posted the following review of the paperback version of Last
Stand on Zombie Island today.

Just waiting for that ball to drop..., November 5, 2012
By  trashcanman (Hanford, CA United States) –

“Last Stand on Zombie Island” has a corny, B-moviesque title, but don’t pass it up based on that. This is not  the usual undead shlock about jagoff survivors tearing each other to shreds or making other moronic decisions in the face of a zombie apocalypse. Nor is it a heavy-handed political commentary or even a bleak examination of the human condition. LSOZI rides the fine line between other works of zombie fiction and carves out a niche of it’s own amidst the tsunami of it that the last decade has brought. It is a book well worth reading if you are a fan of survival horror as it focuses largely on the military and civilian responses to the timely zombie outbreak. I say “timely” because in this case, the worldwide outbreak happens to coincide with World War III, muddying up the waters as nuclear blasts have rendered communication difficult to say the least and most of the story (meaning up until the last chapter) is spent with the survivors nearly clueless about what the hell is happening to the world.

While the expansive cast of LSOZI aren’t exceptional, author Christopher L. Eger draws upon a vast knowledge of military procedures and strategy, boating, and other things that seldom make their way into survival horror stories and delivers an exceptional amount of detail in the defense of the islanders’ home. In spite of the book’s nature as an apocalyptic novel, it’s a fairly optimistic story that focuses on the ability of a community to come together whereas most fiction of this type tends to veer towards bleak anarchy and
nihilism. That, and the unusually well-thought out details of the story make this one a breath of fresh air in a genre that has been oversaturated with the living dead.

In spite of it’s great many strengths, LSOZI has some failings as well. Even with all of the inventive aspects that Eger brings to his debut novel, he fails to make many the characters really stand out and he leaves some definite strings untied in his rush to get to the story’s conclusion, leaving at least one major character stranded with another out seeking her never to be mentioned again. Some closure would’ve been nice, assuming “Another Last Stand on Zombie Island” isn’t on the way.

A character in LSOZI compares humanity’s existence in this double-dose apocalypse to a game of pinball, pointing out that no longer how long you can keep a game going, it’s going to end the same way. The ball is eventually going to drop. This is an excellent metaphor that is somewhat at odds with the mostly non-pessimistic story, but still makes a lot of sense and helps elevate yet another zombie story into something that’s worth your time if you are a fan of the genre. LSOZI may not be on par with the classics of the genre, but it’s
still pretty damn good and an exceptionally well thought out vision of an isolated community’s struggle with the end of civilization as we know it. “

More Jumpers on the Zombie Bandwagon

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No less of a group than the American Red Cross, now mired in Hurricane Sandy relief (http://www.redcross.org/hurricane-sandy) has jumped on the green wheels of the shambling zombie bandwagon. Through a site named Saving Zombies.com the Red Cross is teaching Go Bags, Bug Out Bags, and more.

They even have a countdown to the end of the world (Mayan Calendar expiration)

By the way, in case you are wondering we still have (as of the post date/time of this blog) 46 days, 18 hours and change….and counting.

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