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• Zombie Unrest

  by uselessness 2 months ago

  The thing about zombie communists is the way they look at you. It’s an intelligent sort of gleam in their eyes, a long hungry…

• Zombie Resistance

  by uselessness 3 months ago

  Arms full of junk food, I dropped a twenty on the counter and led the way back outside. To my surprise, I found Nicole drivin…

• Zombie Activism

  by uselessness 3 months ago

  “Joe, get off that man!” cried a woman’s voice. From the cooler emerged another person, a worried-looking matron who at least…

• Zombie Capitalism

  by uselessness 3 months ago

  The convenience store was empty. I ran down the aisles, not wanting to leave Nicole alone at the car longer than I had to. Pa…

• Zombie Emancipation

  by uselessness 3 months ago

  I grabbed the squeegee by the handle and carefully extracted it from the zombie’s head. It slid out with a squelch and an out…

• Zombie Hegemony

  by uselessness 3 months ago

  Zombie Karl Marx was holding the gas pump nozzle in his right hand and my collar in his left. “I think it’s about time you jo…

• Zombie Reification

  by uselessness 3 months ago

  “Honey, I want some tuna.”

  I looked over at Nicole, who was making hungry eyes at me in the passenger’s seat. She was beauti…

• Zombie Proletariats

  by uselessness 4 months ago

  “We’ve got to get out of the suburbs,” I told my very pregnant wife as I escorted her to the car. Thankfully the vehicle was …

• Zombie Struggle

  by uselessness 4 months ago

  I grabbed the mug from the nightstand and heaved open the window. Zombie Karl Marx had the crazed look of an undead Soviet la…

• Zombie Workers

  by uselessness 4 months ago

  I arrived at the house around 3:30 and left the car in the driveway. “Honey?” I called as I ran up the stairs. I rounded the …