Welcome to Day Twelve of your Essential Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse. We all know the end is coming. Well, you gotta be prepared, and you ain’t gonna have time to memorise a whole bunch of stuff when it happens.
You need a short guide to surviving the rise of the undead, covering you all the way from A to Z… You need … Haiku of the Dead!
L-O-L mix ups…
Laugh out loud or lots of love?
Well, text-speak’s now gone…
Forget the rat race:
Life is the name of the game
So play it to win.
Learn to live off land;
Grow some fruit and vegetables;
Catch fish from the lake
Lying is a skill.
Practice on your poker face
And hiding the truth
All you need is LOVE…
A love of killing zombies
And staying a-live!
“You wrote this as part of a month-long challenge? What?!”
Throughout April, I will be joining the A to Z Challenge, posting six days a week to cover each letter of the alphabet… even that annoying “X”… For my theme, I have gone down the well-trodden, stereotypical, bit-of-a-cliché -really path of zombie survival tips… in haiku.
With tongue firmly in cheek, I hope you will join me for the month, and beyond 🙂
There are hundreds of blogs participating – over 1700. I will be doing my best to check out as many of these as possible. You can too via this link: http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/p/a-z-challenge-sign-up-list-2016.html
‘A love of killing zombies’… That I do have. Often in my books they end it under a hail of stones… Well, all my stories are set in the UK and there aren’t that many guns around. Stones work! Honest…
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(Makes note of “S” for stones…) 🙂
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Your followers seem
blood-thirstier than Zombies
May they rest in peace
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Just practical. Most zombies are not as peaceful as yourself
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Why the poker face? Zombies don’t pick up non verbal cues do they? Oh my gosh smart zombies?!? It really is the end of the world.
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Ha ha! No, that would be for the other humans! 🙂
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We’re already living off the land but it might help if we developed a taste for zombies? Or would that turn us into zombies, too? 😆
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That would turn you down the zombie path too… better stick to the veggies!
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Yummy humans! 😀 Have I told you I wrote a short story about cannibals?
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No… is it on your blog??
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It’s in an anthology my SF critique group published (we publish e-anthologies and donate all earnings to Doctors Without Borders). 🙂
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🙂 Sounds great!
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It’s my favorite story I’ve written but that anthology is the least successful one. Our time travel anthologies sell between 20-40 copies a week!
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That’s not a bad rate at all for a piece of work “from the archive”. Well done!
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Thanks!
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Every cloud has a silver lining. Text-speak is gone!
Keith Channing A-Zing from http://keithkreates.com
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Suddenly, it doesn’t seem so bad, does it? 🙂
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Again, with the gardening skills! I’m screwed! 😩
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You just need to pair up with a gardener! 🙂
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Right! Good thinking!
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You answered that a little quickly… someone in mind?? 😉
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Al, I’m sticking with you and the Mrs! You obviously have this all figured out! 😃
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I’ve given it a little thought… 😉
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One of my friends sent her kids a text letting them know an elderly aunt had died and ended with lol for what she thought meant lots of love. Her children were very confused. Great post!
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See, so it’s an end to all that! Every cloud has a silver lining 🙂
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There ya go!
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I’d be lying if I said I loved Zombies… However, if one should land in a stock pot near me, I suppose, that with enough hot sauce, I could learn….
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Ew… that man Alton Brown has done things to your mind!
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Tastes just like chicken!!!
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(shakes head)
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Is it me or did you manage to get quite a few song titles in your haiku today? 🙂
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I’d thought there was only one… looking back, I can see where you’re coming from! Wasn’t intentional! 🙂
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Oh, trust me to see something that isn’t there! 🙂
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Oh, I think it’s there alright, now you’ve said it!
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Coming from silence
beyond your sight and knowledge
they look just like you
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Speak for yourself… 😉
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