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Zombie: An Original Short Story by Chuck Palahniuk

/ Mitch Lavender / 1 Comment

Not many magazines have the nutsack to publish a story by Chuck.  Let’s face it, he’s hardly New Yorker material, and I mean this in all possible, positive ways. Playboy not only published the story, they made it freely available to read online.    If you are here, you must be interested in reading it, so click the link (below) and go already!  This is classic Chuck, and though the story is called Zombie, it is not a typical zombie story.

I’ll give this a proper review later.  For now, enjoy.

And though this is in the SFW (Safe For Work) section of Playboy.com, I recommend that you DO NOT click this link while at work.  Better safe than explain to HR tomorrow why you were looking at anything on playboy.com while at work.

Just sayin’.

 

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Zombie: An Original Short Story by Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk’s new novel, ‘Doomed’ Officially Announced

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Chuck Palahniuk does weird like no other author I read.  Some of his stuff makes Naked Lunch read like Goldilocks.  You’ve got to love the chances he takes with his characters and – to some degree – with his readers.

The sequel to the 2012 novel, Damned has been officially announced, and it’s Doomed.  The news broke over on The Cult, and pre-orders will soon  be accepted for the October 8, 2013 release by Random House.

Here’s the official pitch for Doomed:

doomed-usHaving somewhat reluctantly escaped from Hell, she now wanders the Purgatory that is Earth as a ghostly spirit, seeking her do-gooding celebrity parents, fighting the malign control of Satan, recounting the disgracefully funny (to us, anyway) encounter with her grandfather in a fetid highway rest stop in Upstate New York when she . . . oh, never mind, and climaxing in a rendezvous with destiny on the new, totally plastic continent in the Pacific called, not at all accidentally, Madlantis. Dante Alighieri, watch your back, Chuck Palahniuk is gaining on you.

I like Chuck’s description better:

The next novel will follow Madison back to earth as a ghost, doomed to haunting her parents for a year.  In flashback we see her earlier childhood, including the death of the kitten whose dead body subsequently clogged the plumbing of the Beverly-Wilshire Hotel.  That death is not Madison’s doing, but another death is.  Whether it’s murder or self-defense, as a ten-year-old Madison kills someone horrifically, and that’s the most-likely reason why she was damned in the first place.  We also begin to recognize a centuries-long conspiracy engineered to train and test Maddy for her role as the savior of all spiritual beings.

Nope, nothing subtle, here.

Oh, I forgot to mention it but the world ends in this next book.

 

Well, alrighty then.  Soooo… it’s a romance novel?

As always, when it’s Chuck, I’m in.  Therapy has finally helped me block out all memory of reading Snuffed, and I’m good to go.  Bring on more Madison.