It isn't like peeling an orange. It isn't like popping a walnut. Skulls are harder than I'd imagined. How long do I have, now? I'm still here, enough to know this is wrong, but I love my wife and I love my kids and I want to hold onto those memories and for that I need a brain. Someone is coming closer, hesitating, slack-jawed. I scream at him, meaning to send him words like, &quot;Fuck off! This is mine! I caught this one!&quot; but I think all I holler is noise. I'm not really there. I'm in my fingertips, scouting over the surface of this slick and bloody head. I get the jaw in one hand, the head in another, brace the whole thing against my chest, and pull. Something gives. But no go. His mandible waggles like a broken toy. With his head in my hands, hair sticking to my bloody fingers, I drag him to the curb. I stomp. Something is cracked, beneath the skin. I nip at skin like it's a cellophane wrap. I get fingernails into the crack. I pull. Fingernail breaks. This brain, and maybe I'll remember my wife's name. 2008-10-22T02:29:08Z http://ficlets.com/feed/story/33351 <p>I think this is a really original idea to explain why zombies might want/need brains. The possible unreliability suggested by <strong>chakratreament</strong> is chilling and fascinating.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/33351?basename=98911 2008-10-22T02:29:08Z ZorkFox http://ficlets.com/authors/zorkfox <p>I really enjoy your work, and hope you come out with some books like this! It so much more interesting to view life through new perspectives. Your ideas definitely inspire me to challenge writing of my own.</p> <p>Thank You!</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/33351?basename=95111 2008-09-30T01:02:14Z anima_eros http://ficlets.com/authors/user_10805 <p>And I forgot to mention that I love it when people bring back ficlets that are 3 months old. That is just&#8230; fantastic.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/33351?basename=93658 2008-09-21T04:10:43Z RainDance http://ficlets.com/authors/raindance <p>I&#8217;m with Tad Winslow, that was disgusting and yet so compelling at the same time.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/33351?basename=93657 2008-09-21T04:09:44Z RainDance http://ficlets.com/authors/raindance <p>freaky,I like it,it was really we written</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/33351?basename=93655 2008-09-21T04:03:59Z Blak Mamba http://ficlets.com/authors/blakmambahowls <p>My grandpa eats people&#8217;s brains.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/33351?basename=93537 2008-09-20T21:00:09Z N555champ /\and/\ X-Ninja http://ficlets.com/authors/bigkittyproductions <p>oh wow! i saw the title and i was like &#8220;this is stupid&#8221; but when i actually read it&#8230;what an interesting idea. brilliant!</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/33351?basename=93525 2008-09-20T18:57:03Z J.C. Shaley http://ficlets.com/authors/jch12 <p>You make a good point, (chaka treatment).</p> <p>Sick story, but good!</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/33351?basename=93305 2008-09-19T14:14:37Z Oy http://ficlets.com/authors/tower_addict <p>I just have to wonder if this zombie was ever actually married&#8230;I mean how can he trust his corrupt apparatus to emotionally invest in the concept of his former spouse. After the next brain perhaps he combs the city in search of the corvette he had while alive, never knowing he just WANTED the corvette and never actually got it. Really this is the same kind of rationalization that drug addicts use, the jusy one more hit mentality. All in all a great , provocative story.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/33351?basename=93113 2008-09-18T00:56:31Z chakatreatmentson!(LoA) http://ficlets.com/authors/chakatreatment <p>I agree with all of the above. Wow, what unexpected depth you dealt out to your zombie!</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/33351?basename=92972 2008-09-17T05:52:38Z thebetweenspace http://ficlets.com/authors/thebetweenspace <p>Cool smart story told form the unusaul perspective of the zombie itself. well done.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/33351?basename=92955 2008-09-17T02:49:49Z SKermitgorf http://ficlets.com/authors/kermitgorf <p>Holy. Very nice. I agree with everyone above.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/33351?basename=92947 2008-09-17T02:20:27Z OrangeOreos http://ficlets.com/authors/orangeoreos <p>Icky descriptions. I wanted to stop reading and continue all at once.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/33351?basename=92942 2008-09-17T01:34:11Z Tad Winslow http://ficlets.com/authors/tjd <p>Can&#8217;t believe I missed this one way back when. Nice job providing an inventive perspective and idea for the motivation behind brain-eating. Cool stuff.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/33351?basename=92907 2008-09-16T21:04:42Z THX 0477 http://ficlets.com/authors/thx_0477 <p>This is quite the cool little story. Very well done from the zombie&#8217;s perspective. Thoroughly enjoyed by this guy right here.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/33351?basename=70601 2008-06-13T20:31:57Z John Perkins http://ficlets.com/authors/johnperkins21 <p>Interesting. I never thought I&#8217;d read such an existential piece from a zombie&#8217;s POV .</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/33351?basename=68788 2008-06-07T17:50:01Z Ana Cristina http://ficlets.com/authors/asimon78 <p>Nice twist on the zombie theme. Interesting to have the zombie yearn for its original self.</p> <p>LoA</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/33351?basename=68607 2008-06-06T21:37:23Z Ridcully Calvert http://ficlets.com/authors/user_joon <p>As always, very entertaining.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/33351?basename=68572 2008-06-06T19:34:47Z Krulltar http://ficlets.com/authors/krulltar <p>Oh…ouch. Curbing a dead guy? What a horrendous imagination you have there, sir. Wonderful description, anyway. =)</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/33351?basename=68566 2008-06-06T19:22:54Z Stovohobo http://ficlets.com/authors/stovohobo <p>sick&#8230; love the perspective from the zombies POV .</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/33351?basename=68536 2008-06-06T18:18:24Z BernerOberland http://ficlets.com/authors/mercutio1027