Subtle Bluntness

As for BLITEOTW, it was a lot of fun once I finally got myself into the place where it was easy for me to write. I struggled getting into it for four hours Tuesday night (after my first trip to the dentist this week), and I probably rejected three or four different posts before [...]

Everyone would like to think that, in a time of crisis we’d rise above our fears and become heroes, dashing heedlessly into danger with a gun in each hand and a quip on the tongue. Most of us are just cowards.

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shes got friends but I don’t know how many it has to be a lot of them
i can hear them groaning and slap slap slapping against the walls breaking glass breaking fingernails breaking me
i can smell them through the air conditioner sickly sweet like orchids and blood
tvs still broacasting but brian williams is going crazy [...]

oh fuck oh fuck I dropped my gun out the fucking window oh fuck I’m so fucking dead it’s not even funny I was going to shoot one that came up to the back door and started pounding on it but she reached out and grabbed me and I dropped the fucking gun and now [...]

The last local station signed off at 2:15 this afternoon. We’re getting the New York bunker feed now. Brian Williams looks like he’s been through hell. You and me both, buddy.

I couldn’t find anything worth a damn in the garage to block the windows to the front porch, but I did find pressboard enough to cover the window in the back door. I broke the legs off the kitchen table and rolled it into the living room to cover most of the front window. [...]

Things are getting out of hand. Not just here.
Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain… they’re everywhere.
Look at this, on the front page of CNN.com. Still think it’s a stunt to promote a movie? Still think this is just the work of terrorists or rioters, that we should wait it out and hope that [...]

Guess who realized that, less than two miles away from his house, is a hospital teeming with probably-reanimated corpses? Yeah, me. I don’t hear the sirens from Mary & Elizabeth anymore; that’s probably not a good sign. TV says they’re opening up rescue stations for the displaced at Ft. Knox, among other [...]

Mom and Dad should’ve been home by now. Usually they’re through with the route by 11:00 or so, but it’s already well past 12 and they haven’t come home. I’m not getting an answer on either cell phone. Granted, I usually don’t get an answer because either the [...]