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Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath.

Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas__ut not zombies.

Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-seven years: with an idiot__n this case, Rebecca Atherton, head of the After the End Times Irwins, winner of the Golden Steve-o Award for valor in the face of the undead__eciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens.

My story ended where so many stories have ended since the Rising: with a man__n this case, my adoptive brother and best friend, Shaun__olding a gun to the base of my skull as the virus in my blood betrayed me, transforming me from a thinking human being into something better suited to a horror movie.

Goldenrod Moram had a first name that sounded like it belonged in the middle of a fairy tale, where she would be the dazzling princess in need of rescuing.

I should probably start with the blood.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.

The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.

This is how it feels to die: It starts from outside and works its way in.

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me.

I am girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white.Remember this.

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

Toward the end of February 1954, James Beard was at work in his Greenwich Village kitchen doing what he most loved to do: cooking delicious meals.

Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full.

On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl.