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You read it for the Library. If not, you read it for my missus before we go to bed!! :D

Or is that too weird to ask?

-dancingfred

I barely write English, now you want me to speak it too?

I would be afraid that with my accent if I were to read aloud certain (ahem!) intimate scenes that I might give someone another heart attack.

-nr

Thanks for the information.  A friend of mine made a short film using the Red One camera.  I'm not sure how much of the story is going to make it into this movie, since there isn't a radio station in the book.

-nr 

Tease? The title itself is a tease. Wondering why this novel is unpublishable is a tease.

-stephennorth

I consider it unpublishable due to the copious amounts of lesbian sex.  I was going through an Edward Lee  phase.

-nr

An American friend of mine turned me on to an amazing Canadian zombie novel, Pontypool Changes Everything.

It is almost totally unlike any zombie story I have ever read.  It is very literary and really unusual.  Great stuff.  Rumor is that it is also going to be a movie.

-nr

Heureux le jour de l'action de grâce!

-nr

Congrats!  Did we break the Top 100 or did we take a bite out of it?

-nr

Ahhhh Nickie!! That's such fantastic news!! I miss my "King In Red"!!

Just to let you know Nickie, I loved these soooo much, I put the first three chapters together and they'll be on ZomPod. The World will know your name!!

-dr-pus

Thanks, Doc.  I'm thrilled... at last the world will know my name for something that doesn't involve streaking!

-nr

A new chapter of The King in Red, The Lamb, is almost finished and will be over to the good Doctor soon!

It feels great to be working on the story again.

-nr

Nickie I hope you feel better soon.

-aventerine

Thank you!  I am having a much better week this week.

natacha bought me a new book, Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire.

-nr

I am so jealous of you all, iIt was always a fantasy of mine to have my picture taken standing in front of the Pennys at the Monroeville Mall.

-nr

LOL Of course it's ok!! I'm just a bit too nosy for my own good. I was just wondering where all the problems were. So my comment about your hips being out of alignment was pretty insensitive then and for which I apologise wholeheartedly!

-dancingfred

Tu est un bete!  I love you anyway. 

What I want to know is where do you stick a Hello Kitty decal on a wheelchair that will still leave room to paint the flames?

-nr 

Is it bad taste to ask what's up? (If I was sensitive, I would realise that you would've said already if you wanted to tell us, but no harm in asking and showing some interest is there?)

-dancingfred

I thought about it dancingfred and I decided it just wasn't a story I was willing to share yet.  Is that Ok?  I don't mind at all saying that I'm having problems with my spine and one of my legs (and neither one just wants to co-operate and do what they were designed for), but the whole 'why' part is a little on the heavy side.

-nr

There are plans to release a book (or a few) containing novellas. Keep writing.

And for those of you who think you missed the deadline of Halloween, you really didn't.

It looks like there will be 3 volumes of "Zombology" released. Continue to send in the stories. (Only open to forum members and podcast listeners.)

-dr-pus

C'est renversant!  I was almost finished with my story and then I read something... um... what is the word... spectacular? that made me want to go back and rewrite a few sections of the story.

I do apologize in advance to everyone else who submitted on time as my story will be better than yours.  TeeHee!

-nr 

Thanks guys!  I'm doing much better.  I'm still reduced to getting around with crutches or a wheelchair and that might be a permanent change.  Walking is one of those things you just don't think about until you can't do it any more.

I go from days where I can live with that to days where I'm thinking about throwing some ice into a cleaning fluid cocktail drinking it down and doing a face dive into a glass coffee table. (Corn nuts!)

I'm not in pain every moment of every day like I was for a few weeks.  I still take painkillers when I need them and while that was fun for a few weeks you get concerned about getting dependent on those.

I have people who love me (and one who calls me Maman) and no worries about money and that makes all the difference.

-nr

What a fantastic development!  I wish I had finished my story in time.

-nr

Yes, the card made me very happy.  Now you did it, I'm getting all misty again.

TeeHee!

-nr

Feel better soon, Dr.!

-nr

I need these in a way that is probably unhealthy.

-nr

You know what makes me angry?  Two kinds of people; those who are intolerant and want to tell you that you can't live your life the way you were made and those who dislike Hello Kitty.

I find you can fix both kinds of people by hitting them with water balloons filled with chicken blood.

-nr

Am I crying?  You can't see me crying over the internet can you?  It must be allergies.

These are just amazing.  I'm so touched that you took the time to make those for me, it means a ton.  I have had a really rough couple of months (and don't these things hit you just when things finally seem to be going your way?) and it has meant a lot to have a handfull of great people... a handfull of Good Librarians who cared.

Thanks everyone! And double thanks to Zombie Farmer!

-nr  

I always imagined it would be like trying to tell the difference between a human and a dog.  They are both so different that you would be hard pressed to imagine a dog mistaking another dog for a human.  Zombies are like that, they just know who are humans and who are zombies.

-nr

You have one week to get your stories to me. Submissions will be closed on Halloween.

-dr-pus

Are you threatening me?  Doesn't he sound ominous?  Use a Vincent Price voice and say, 'Submissions will be CLOSED on Halloween.' and play a sound in your head like axe chopping into the back of your skull when you hear the 'closed' part.

I worked on my story tonight.  Almost finished!

-nr

You look pretty ok for someone that was at death's door a couple of weeks ago :)

-dancingfred

Thanks, I clean up good.  I should look fine, I wasn't sick like illness sick.  I was just in pain.  I could post a just-woke-up-no-makeup picture if it would make you feel better. HeHe!

Je suis malade.

-nr

Think your hips are out of alignment though!
Nice pic.

-dancingfred

Thanks!  That is me being cool and trying to pretend I'm not stoned on painkillers.  I still had to lean up against something or fall on my ass.  Ha!

-nr

Yea! I'm up and moving around again!

I'm still using crutches unless I want to shuffle around like a zombie. (Not that there is anything wrong with that!)

I can even dress myself.  Not that it wasn't fun having having someone else dress me or just lying around in a bathrobe all the time.

I'm almost a person again.

-nr

Mother of Tears was long and boring.  (And not enough boobs!)  I was expecting a lot more and it just wasn't there.  It was like some direct-to-video 90's horror flick.

I watched Sukiyaki Western Django... neat movie. (Not... enough... boobs!)  There is something about a woman wearing a cowboy hat.  Wow!  Is it hot in here?

I also saw Hell Ride.  Finally, a movie with enough boobs!  (And Motorcycles, VRoom!) Are Native American women really that pretty?  I might have to plan a trip to the US.

-nr

Like, "trippin"! It has jaberwocky in it. Are you back with us and healed up? Or at least so wasted ya can't tell? You have not joined PETA have you? There was a decidedly moral theme to that story:) Or was that a morel theme?

-aldon

I'm still pretty mimsy and my borogoves are killing me.  I'm not going to join PETA, but I might go naked if someone wanted to buy me a fur.

-nr 

We expect extra psychadelic prose from you! Drug up, we're all ready to say "trippin"!

-aldon

Nimbel laughed at the punxney in their pens. 

'Whippel them with rocks,' Nimbel clucked, her tongue sliding snakelike along her beak.

Isgnell scratched at the dust until a good sized rock was revealed.  She hesitated to pluck it and whippel it at the pink animals.  They were such ugly things and they made such ugly sounds.

'Go on, whippel it hard.'

'I might hurt one of them,' Isgnell whistled.

Nimbel chuckled and ruffled her red crest, 'You can't hurt a punxey, Isg.  Punxey aren't human.  Punxey's don't sleese.  They don't krashoon and they don't even gather in murweds.  You would just pekk if you saw one trying to feed their younglings.'

Convinced, Isgnell plucked up the rock and whippeled it at a slender female punxey that was bent over scratching in the dirt.  It hit the dumb animal in its flat face and knocked it down.  Nimbel laughed and whippeled several more rocks at it, knocking it down each time it tried to ruvuww onto two legs.  Finally, the animal remained on all fours and crawled away from the edge of the pen, hiding behind a large bull.

'What was it scratching?' Isgnell asked.

'Puxney art?  They do that any time we get close to the pen.  Don't tell me you are one of those humans that think they have a language.'

'No, those noises can't be language,' Isg snickered.  'Still...'

'Come on, if we don't get moving you will miss getting to see the Quartermasters slaughter a bull punxney.  I want to get there while the eyes are still fresh.'

Isg took one last look at the punxey drawings.  It made no sense, but she shouldn't expect animals to make sense.  It looked so much like a word, but it wasn't a word, just a bunch of random scratchings.

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If she hurried, she could still catch up with the rest of the tour.

-nr 

Bonjour, Mes Amis!

I am back in my little ville.  I would so much enjoy if I were to be able to say that I'm all better, but I can say that there is something to be said for almost unlimited painkillers. 

Thank you all for caring,

-nr 

Aaaack, aaaack, aaack aak aaaackck acckaaaaaakck.

(That's Martian.)

-zombiezak

Yes and I know what you meant.  Get your mind out of the gutter!

-nr