Luke flailed wildly against the fresh zombie. Weakened by hunger, he didn’t even have a weapon this time. Heart thumping, he backed up, heading for the kitchen – searching for a knife, anything… nothing. No knife block. Cutlery drawer?
He grabbed the first metallic item and swung, eyes closed, at the zombie’s head. It speared in through its ear. The zombie dropped to the floor, inanimate again.
Steve burst into the room with his club. “You ok?” He took one look at the scene and burst out laughing. “Use the forks, Luke!”
Luke dropped to his knees, sobbing, utterly drained.
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This is the second one today from my friend Sandra’s “zombie – fork” prompt 🙂 Apologies to all the nice Steves out there. A couple of them have done you a real disservice!
Picture credit: flickr.com/photos/albercik/3066168639
A Certain Point of View 
Oh no! Have you got Star Wars references in there too?!!!!
Grrr!! I might have to tell you to fork off, if you carry that on!!!!! 🙂
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It’s the Steves of this world, not me… 🙂
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Then the Steves will have to pay!!!
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Steve is helpful once again 😀
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He may become a recurring character in my stories 🙂
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Oh my God, that was great! 😄 Just as I was opening this post, I thought… “I bet a fork could kill a zombie…” and I thought that’s what you might write… but not by using the forks.
I’m embarrassed to admit how often my kids pick up some piece of food at the dinner table with fingers and I have to say “Use the fork!” That laugh… and usually, continue using fingers. 😀
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Obviously “That” should be “They”. Stupid phone sucks at autocorrect…
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“But mum, if we weren’t supposed to use our fingers, how do you explain finger food?”
Bless their cotton socks
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🙂 Yes… chicken fingers… I had to explain that “fingers” refers to the shape of the chicken, not the method with which they should be eaten. However in that case, fingers are okay. 🙂
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See, with kid logic, this is a complicated area… my three year old eats mashed potato with his fingers… and jelly, come to think of it… then gets really fussy and insists on using a fork to eat donuts
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My kids hold the chicken fingers in their hands and use them to pick up the mashed potatoes… At least they use spoons for ice cream. Unless it’s on a cone. I mean, that would be weird. 😀
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“Luke flailed wildly against the fresh zombie.”
This quite possibly the funniest first line of all time. So many ways to interpret it–cinematically, sexually, alcoholically, zombily.
Now I’m pondering the difference between fresh zombies and day-old zombies. I mean, other than the fact that day-olds are usually half price and a little stale…come to think of it, they probably make great croutons.
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I’ve gotta admit, I hadn’t considered either the sexual or alcohol angles. Very unlike me
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_(cocktail)
The zombie sexual position you’ll have to Google for yourself.
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I’m totally doing that right now! 🙂
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Hmm… I like the one described as “doggystyle while playing Call of Duty Black Ops”. That’s the level of romance the world needs 🙂
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Afterglow involves detox shower and visit to free clinic.
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I like playing chess with zombies: you can pin them or fork them. But always remember: fork the zombie before he forks you.
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Sound advice, in any weather
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It reminds me of the Richard Hatfield (Premier of New Brunswick) bumper sticker: “Dick Hatfield before he dicks you.” He lost all 52 seats in the legislature in that election!
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Hahaha!
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Looks as though our hero prevailed, in the nick of tine!
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Top class punning. Get thee to a punnery!
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No forking around, eh?
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Haha! I was trying to resist that one 😀
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Plunge the knife, twixt gut and bladder!
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Another reason to fear the Aben barbeque… 😉
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By the time I waded through these comments, and collected myself, all my wit has run off my fork, like brain spaghetti. Nice work Luke!
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Hmm… brain spaghetti…
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Yeah, that was all I had by then. All punned out, with nary a fork in sight.
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You need to top up those pun reserves. Forks can puncture half-empty tyres too 🙂
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I fear a throbbing headache prevents me from thinking. So no pun for me either.
Can’t wait to have access to my computer (thus reader) soon, so I don’t have to binge read your work. It deserves to be relished in small forkfuls…
I simply loved the ‘use the forks’ line!
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Binge at your leisure… you know I’ll be posting more tomorrow, in one shape or other!
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