"Letters From The Dead" rises, well .... from the dead. --SUBMISSIONS OPEN
Even though we lost most of the letters that were on ZombieFans.com, I've decided we need to start this booger up again. It will be put our by the "Library of the Living Dead Press" and you all are invited to subit your own letters. If you've written ones before, please send them again. If you haven't written one .... then what the hell are you waiting for.
I want this damn thing published!! And if TBE will agree to it again, he'll be the editor.
For those of you not understanding what I want, here's the skinny. The people who wrote these letters are the final survivors of the Zompocalypse, but they ain't gonna last long. It's like their last will and testement. A letter for someone to find after they have either killed themselves or have little time after they've been bitten.
Here's an example that I wrote a while ago:
To you,
If your a readin' this then I s'pose you ain't one of them things that killed my dog , ate my sheep and tore appart my wife. And that's the order I'll be a missin' them too. Bastards. I knew somethin just wernt right when Grandmaw done got up outta that pine box we laid her in for the wake. Boy was my wife good an pissed when Uncle Clem done blew Grandmaw's brains all over the new carpetin in the family room
Out here in God's country we still have wakes when someone up and dies. Well, we used to, until all of my damn family got bit and then they died and then they got up as one of those fucking leg draggin' bastards. And you know what? I was happy as hell to shoot most of them. Bunch of leeches. I did feel kinda bad bout blowin Emily’s head clean off, she was my wife. Dumbass. I tole her not to go to the outhouse at night. Just shit in the 5 gallon bucket in the house. Stupid broad.
Now I was kinda lookin' forward to some of that alone time. No real chores to do, no animals to feed, no list of shit my wife demanded to be done. Nobody bitchin' at me cause I drank too much. I have it made here. Gots me a good generator that's kept the seven sides of beef in the freezer from goin' over, all the canned shit that Emily put up, the well hasn't acted up alot, done killed most of those bastard things outside and I still have a shitload of ammo and shine left.
But as the weeks dragged on I got lonely. Can you fuckin' believe that? I've been called a mean old bastard since I was 40 years old, what's that big word my smartass grandson a called me ... oh yeah ... a curded muggen, well hell, it was sumthin' like that. They'd all a tole me I should just go live on a deserted island somewheres and say "fuck the world". And I have said "fuck the world" and I am now in what I done look at as a deserted island ... it's my farm.
Hell, mayhaps I'm sorry for that shit. I do know that I ain't a goin' on like this. I got my favorite Mossberg 12 guage and there's a slug already pumped into the chamber. I done plan on blowing my fool head off here, soon as I finish and sign this here last bit of me an put it in one of the new Mason jars Emily had bought.
So, to you, if you are readin' this ... don't be a fuckin' prick like I am ... it ain't a worth the grief. Now get the fuck off my property.
Spud
Send submissions to .... lotldpress@yahoo.com .... DO NOT POST THEM ON THE FORUM.
Let's get writin'!
Doc
Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh!
I'm gonna dig those puppies back up and send them to ya! (PS: I might edit them a wee bit, but that's all!)
I would really love to see this published Doc, but honestly I’m not qualified to be a final editor, my final editing would need editing you know. I think this needs the attention of someone that really knows what their doing. I can help as far as tweaking the stories to match the mythology of the story line if that’s necessary. I am willing to help in any way that I can.
I also think that changing the concept just a bit might be a good idea because it was just to difficult to explain how some letters survived the elements for over two hundred years to be discovered by the survivors emerging from their underground sanctuaries.
Maybe it should be a simple collection of messages left behind by trapped people who didn’t survive, without trying to explain how the letters were found. But the letters have to be written like letters, not short stories, that’s a tricky part. I noticed that many of the previous letters, all good stuff of course, but many of them read like short stories and not like something people might write just before they blow their head off to avoid being eaten alive by the ravenous zombies breaking down the door.
The true Letters From The Dead have more impact than the short story because their written to simulate the real gut wrenching experience of the writer contemplating his or her own unavoidable death by being eaten alive. The sample letter that you posted Doc, is a fine example of what you should be looking for.
The zombies are slow Romero style zombies vulnerable to the classic head shot. Other than that it’s wide open as to how the letters are written as long as they read like letters. I think that’s what would set it apart from all the other zombie anthologies out there.
Putting this together wont be easy, but if it was easy everybody would be doing it.
PS I still have six of the Zombiefans stories saved on my puter.
As always, let me know what you think.
That's just cool as hell with me TBE. But I do want to run all of the letters past you. Then we'll have Becca do her magic to what you approve.
Fair enough?
Doc
That's just cool as hell with me TBE. But I do want to run all of the letters past you. Then we'll have Becca do her magic to what you approve.
Fair enough?
Doc-dr-pus
F***ing aye brother.
Can anyone submit? I've got a LFTD ready to go but I don't know where to send it to.
Anyone can submit.
Send it to ... lotldpress@yahoo.com .....
Title your e-mail "Letters"
Thanks for your interest Baggy!
Doc
Ooooh... I have an odd question. Can we pick our own font? Because I don't think zombies type.
-nr
Ooooh... I have an odd question. Can we pick our own font? Because I don't think zombies type.
-nr-nickie
As always I’m a little slow on the uptake, can’t tell if you’re really asking or joking, I’m challenged that way.
Just to be safe, I think the Doc’s fave is a 12 point Courier
New font, double spaced with paragraph separation and one inch margins.
Name and contact info in the upper left hand corner of the first page. word count on the upper right with story title center and it helps if you set up a header on every page except the first with story title, your name, and page numbers.
That right Doc?
By the way, I think that zombies can type, but it would look like this...
sfuiojigoiuijvo;u9t054ovwjiikcvop p 5w[ty9kri0c-[i-0]yu90y0pipip[0111ip[1ipgtihp[[gi-]ijkkkisgrkglgrnhlrldgrvkjltjkfkvfkidnmkivdcgfklcfmklxcflxklj/jxcfjklxcfkluxdfl;sa';sl;sd';l;gjik
thats zombie for, why do these crazy breathers do this anyway?
F***ing aye brother.
-theblackempty
i got your back. no problem.
i got your back. no problem.-theeditrix
Aaaand the terror just melted away...
Aaaand the terror just melted away...
-theblackempty
if only editing skillz had real, practical applications in the apocalypse.... i'd be one badass bitch with a big red pen. everyone would want to be my friend.
if only editing skillz had real, practical applications in the apocalypse.... i'd be one badass bitch with a big red pen. everyone would want to be my friend.-theeditrix
And all the zombies of the land far and wide (including Zak?) fled in undead terror of the fearsome BECCA and her dreaded red pen.
And the pen iiiissss....
Rrrrrrrrrooooyal blue.
-Jim Carry in Liar Liar
if only editing skillz had real, practical applications in the apocalypse.... i'd be one badass bitch with a big red pen. everyone would want to be my friend.-theeditrix
how do you write a scream anyway?
Is it.
“Oh God nnnnoooooo Aaaahhhhhrrrrrggggggg,” she screamed in perfectly articulated punctuation.
Or.
“Oh God no,” she said screaming in perfectly articulated punctuation.
I sent in a few to ya to the preivous email Doc but I'll dig them up again and send them over.
Ok, I sent ya one doc. Let me know if it's ok or complete shit.
Just remember, these letters are written by those who are still alive, but not for much longer. They have either been bitten and on the way to hell, they are writing a farewell letter to a loved one, or they are writing their last will and testament (then they blow their heads off).
The reason I posted my letter from Spud is that he tells the whole story in one very short letter. That's what I want. Not exactly like Spud wrote, but a complete short letter that's a story in itself.
These "Letters from the Dead" were started by TBE a long time ago. He's the one to blame. But I luvs him just the same. He and I will do the editing on these.
Write your letter NOW! And send it to ... lotldpress@yahoo.com ... title it "Letters".
Undead love,
Doc
You’re trapped and there’s no way out. There is a ravenous hoard of undead cannibals outside your door and their going to get in, sooner than later.
You have to face the unavoidable truth that you’re not going to survive the zombie apocalypse, there is no escaping this time and no one is coming to rescue you.
This is your last chance to tell your story, say your good byes, or confess your sins.
Time is running out, so grab that pen and a piece of paper or scratch it into the wall with your useless car keys.
How ever you’re going to do it, you need to do it fast. Start now before it’s to late, write your--
Letters From the Dead.
oh, oh, I got one. I got one. I'm gonna send it right away. Truth is I wrote it along time ago. Did I possibly see this coming?
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