Comments on 'Nobody Ate the Plums [The Apology Challenge]'Another long night of fending off the walking dead and my own sense of foreshortened future had left me bereft of hope and in dire need of a drink. The drink would wait, as I found the following hastily scrawled note on the fridge.
_This is just to say_
_I've had a bit of me eaten_
_by a zombie that was hiding by_
_the icebox_
_as I went to fetch the frozen plums_
_you had been saving_
_for breakfast._
_Forgive me._
_Life is too delicious,_
_but now I feel so odd,_
_so cold._
I didn't want to look away from the note, but I could hear a slow, shuffling step bringing the stench of new death into the kitchen. Thank goodness for shotguns I couldn't help but think. Though I'd done so a hundred times in the past few days, working the pump action seemed to go in slow motion and expel a bit of my heart with the spent shell.
Without looking, I aimed toward the noise, whispered, "Forgive me," and I shot my last friend in the world.2008-05-01T07:02:42Zhttp://ficlets.com/feed/story/28984Comment on Nobody Ate the Plums [The Apology Challenge]<p>Brilliant is all I can say.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/28984?basename=597442008-05-01T07:02:42ZSaint Chuckhttp://ficlets.com/authors/chuck_theloveComment on Nobody Ate the Plums [The Apology Challenge]<p>I enjoyed the zombie twist that you added to original poem. . . very clever :)</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/28984?basename=597232008-05-01T02:37:55ZMisheru O'kuhttp://ficlets.com/authors/mokuComment on Nobody Ate the Plums [The Apology Challenge]<p>I love how you follow the style of the original poem and yet come up with something <em>decidedly</em> different. I’m glad you entered. Your entry holds up with the best of ‘em. Better late than never, I always say. ;-)<br />LoA</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/28984?basename=596732008-04-30T23:52:26ZAna Cristinahttp://ficlets.com/authors/asimon78Comment on Nobody Ate the Plums [The Apology Challenge]<p>This works as a parody of the famous poem and as a parody of resident evil simultaneously. Although a bit funny (i.e. life is too delicious) in the beginning you finish with some excellent prose and leave me feeling like I just read an excerpt from a highly successful debut author. A rousing round of applause indeed.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/28984?basename=596202008-04-30T20:19:09ZTad Winslowhttp://ficlets.com/authors/tjdComment on Nobody Ate the Plums [The Apology Challenge]<p>That…<br />was amazing.<br />LoA</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/28984?basename=596172008-04-30T19:48:36ZValley Fey/Pinprickhttp://ficlets.com/authors/imandynan0Comment on Nobody Ate the Plums [The Apology Challenge]<p>wow. I’m…speechless o.0<br />LoA</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/28984?basename=596062008-04-30T16:10:05Zsomeday_93http://ficlets.com/authors/someday_93Comment on Nobody Ate the Plums [The Apology Challenge]<p>Oh, my gosh. That’s hilarious and awesomely cool at the same time! <strong>Standing ovation</strong></p>http://ficlets.com/stories/28984?basename=596012008-04-30T15:26:00Zthebetweenspacehttp://ficlets.com/authors/thebetweenspace