Lily, the caretaker’s daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she pushed one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office and tried to take a bite out of him than the wheezy hall-door bell clanged again. Animal memory made her try to scamper along the bare hallway and let in another guest, but the one she’d bitten thrust her away from himself so hard that she landed on her back and
It’s four-thirty am, and everything is dark and quiet in the Sunshine State. The people here won’t wake until the rays hit their faces, reminding them to play their morning round of golf. I jot down Google Maps’ perilous journey in my Rite-in-the-Rain field notebook, and set off. My road companions are 18-wheelers shipping cargo, giants next to my small white rental sedan. In the darkness, their headlights are my only reassurance that I’m not…
It wasn't as embarrassing as you might think, because the realization dawned so slowly. Sometime around 2022, although you could argue that it took a few years after that for the expectations to really die down, no pun intended. Certainly by spring of that year, even the most die-hard of holdouts had deleted their Zombie 5k training apps and relabeled their emergency kits "Earthquake Supplies." No one really wanted to admit they were so disappointed…
