Crossroads

“That if any House be Infected, the sick person or persons be forthwith removed...for the preservation of the rest of the Family...be shut up for fourty days, and have a Red Cross, and Lord have mercy upon us, in Capital Letters affixed on the door...”

King Charles II, Orders for prevention of the Plague

From George Romero’s classic Night of the Living Dead to the modern television series The Walking Dead, people are fascinated with zombies. The following tale, Crossroads, deals with the problem of reanimated corpses - the risen dead - and addresses a fundamental question...how would you act and react in the face of such a horror?

But where did the impetus come from to write such a tale? I started writing it for one of my students - on the inside - and continued writing it for the rest of my students. Most of them didn't like to read. And who blame them? How were they supposed to relate to any protagonist found in most books? So I wrote a book for them. A book that actually deals with things that might be of interest to them - being locked up and zombies.