Review for Het schaduwjaar
First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ Last Ones Left Alive
My toenail has blackened, and I have to pull to get it off. You’d feel it, so you would; it’s painful enough. I douse my foot in water, and I leave the nail by the side of the road, and on we go.
Review for Last Ones Left Alive
Waiting on Wednesday ~ Nuclear Winter Vol.1
Teaser Tuesday ~ Rot & Ruin
This time I had random.org select a chapter (8), and from that I picked a page/teaser from that.
There was a low moan, and Benny turned to see a gray-skinned man shuffling slowly around the corner of the building. He wore ancient coveralls that were stained with dark blotches and, incongruously, a garland of fresh flowers around his neck. Marigolds and honeysuckle. The man’s face was shaded for a few steps, but then he crossed into the sunlight, and Benny nearly screamed. The man’s eyes were missing and the sockets gaped emptily.
First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ Devils Unto Dust
Life out here is hard, my mother used to say, so you have to be harder. Even she wasn’t strong enough to fight off the sickness. By the end she was just a shell of herself, her skull showing through the skin on her face, talking nonsense when the delirium took her. Sometimes she didn’t know who I was or what was happening. And then she remembered, and it was worse.
October Horror Mystery Month Fest Recommendation ~ Bloody Manga Edition ~ Day 6: Infection
Read if you like: zombies, creepy mutants, ecchi, gore, kick-ass characters, a MC who actually thinks, post-apocalypse
Teaser Tuesday ~ Rated
I had random.org select a % for me and it selected 20%.
Talk of it was quickly shushed by teachers in classrooms and hallways, but there was no way to truly silence several hundred teenagers who had just witnessed the juiciest bit of gossip to hit the academy since Elizabeth Reynolds, student council vice president, had a nervous breakdown two years ago and attempted to blow up her smartwatch in the chem lab using a highly combustible potassium chlorate solution.
Monday’s First Sentence ~ The Testaments
Only dead people are allowed to have statues, but I have been given one while still alive.