 "born on a Monday" by greyloch, on Wikimedia Commons What if people who were dead came back to life, but instead of just being normal, they were flesh-eating monsters, you know like zombies?...No, wait, that's been done. Night of the Living Dead and ad infinitum.
But what if these so-called zombies destroyed civilization, and we got to watch the survivors in the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse?...Oh, no, that's been done too. The Walking Dead et cetera. So then what if one of those brain-eating creepers accidentally fell in love with a girl and regained his humanity?...Okay, that's been done, too. Warm Bodies, a zombie romance. Insofar as zombie-related plots are concerned, it seems like it's all "been there, done that." Hmmm.... Ah, but what about this--The zombie apocalypse has occurred, but the survivors have reversed it with a new miracle drug? Hey, that hasn't been done before! And now it has. Welcome to In the Flesh, a post-zombie apocalypse story courtesy of the BBC. I've only seen about the first 30 minutes of the first episode of this series (okay, so I'm definitely not an expert--I know that), but I am really psyched about the premise. A boy named Kieran is one of the undead...or at least he was, but now he's been identified as actually having Partially Deceased Syndrome (PDS), an ailment that apparently causes people to lose their minds and go cannibal all over people's butts (well, every part of their body, not just their butts). But now, with the help of medication, he's learned the error of his ways and has recovered enough to be returned to his family. The problem is that he's wracked with guilt and suffering flashbacks of the people he's eaten in his zombie state, his home is ground central for a militia that hunted and exterminated "rotters" like him, there is still a lot of simmering anger towards people with PDS, and Kieran's sister Jem was/is a zombie hunter (Her buddy in the Human Volunteer Force (HVF), Billy "Sarge" Macy calls her The Rambo of Roarton). How is Kieran going to navigate this new life as a regular-teenage-boy/recovering-human-flesh-addict? I can't wait to find out! Here's what I like about this series so far:
As far as I can see from a rudimentary Google search, In The Flesh originally aired on BBC three and BBC America. It's available now on Hulu Plus. I don't know if it's available anywhere else right now, but if you get the chance, check it out, and please let me know what you think about it in the comments below. Thanks for reading. If you like this post, hit one of the share buttons below. :-)  "dog" by nikko le cose This poem, which I penned rather quickly at DFW Writers Conference and have since revised, was inspired by a contemporary poet who is some-kind-of-wonderful named Joaquin Zihuatanejo. He gave us this poem (follow the link!) and asked us to model it in our own writing.
Here is the prompt Zihuatanejo gave us: A young man drunk on whiskey and heartache has just crashed his car into a tree. Well, the image that came to my mind was not a drunk kid but an animal on the side of the road, the victim of a car bumper. I originally imagined a dead moose thanks to my obsession with This American Life stories, but then I thought it would make more sense if the dead animal were a dog. So here it is: dead dog backwards The sun knits the worms of your viscera back together as the flies unseal their kisses and buzz away. The shovel lifts your rag doll body back onto the gravel road where you unfreeze just as the bumper pushes the blood back into your internal organs, the headlights spark across your white eyes, and the boy spots your dark outline against the darker night and smashes his foot from the break pad to undo a smiley face on his cell phone. Kinda gross, huh? Don't text and drive! :-P NOTE: No dogs were harmed in the making of this poem. Please use one of the buttons below to share! Thanks for reading! |
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