Naked Zombies October 27, 2012
Posted by nrhatch in Humor, Magick & Mystery, Poetry, Word Play.trackback
Credit: Zora Neale Hurston
Naked zombie roams
Haiti, shivering with cold
Dusty feet shuffle
Across cobblestones
Moving to and fro, water
in blood beckoning
Groans escape parched lips
Twenty years under still ground
You’d be thirsty too
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In 1937, a naked woman was found limping through the streets of Haiti, unable to identify herself.
The woman was later identified in hospital as Felicia Felix-Mentor ~ a woman who had been dead for nearly twenty years.
A real live . . . dead zombie! 😯
Care to play along? Visit Trifecta Weekend Challenge for the Spook Scoop.
Aah . . . that’s better!
Related posts: Zombies and Morality (Eric John Baker ~ Clawing At The Keys) * Zombie Apocalypse (Barbara Gildea) * Zombies (Draug) * Halloween Fever (Me Me Me Me Me) * First Day (Hypothetically Writing)
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Spirit Lights The Way 
I’ve written many vampire stories, but none about zombies. I might give it a try. Is there a word quota or limit? Is there a time limit?
Yes and Yes. The word quota ~ 33 words.
Submissions close and voting begins tomorrow.
All details found on Trifecta . . . click the link (above).
This is AMAZING. So much so that I have had to resort to capitals. I love the story. Off to find out more!
I thought you might want to sink your teeth into Felicia’s story. 😉
Another story that might be right up your alley:
http://www.aol.com/video/a-haunted-house-on-staten-island/517516807/?ncid=wsc-video-cards-image
I like this! Really great and I like the bit of humor at the end 🙂
Thanks, Draug! Congrats on winning the book last week. 😀
Ah, thank you! 😀
Now you’re trying to get that song stuck in MY head!
I figured the best way to get Zombie out of my head was to hand the song back to you! 😀
Why, Hatch… are you flirting with me? Why else would a lady talk about zombies?
Darn. Now every time someone shuffles past the dining room window of my apartment, I’ve got to peek outside and see if they have that “look.” I knew this place wasn’t zombie-proof enough!
Why, indeed? 😉
If they shuffle past naked . . . be wary.
Naked + the “look” . . . very scary! 😯
Flirting aside, I’m glad you stopped by. I meant to hunt up a link to your post on Zombie Morality. I forgot. Once Zombies enter the brain, some degree of forgetfulness is to be expected.
Come to think of it, if any of my neighbors shuffle past my window naked, zombie or otherwise, I’m reporting them to the community manager. There are some things I don’t want to see, and not all of them are called “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.”
Good call! 😀
The first lawsuit I ever handled involved evicting an elderly gentleman prone to wandering round the community naked.
He just “forgot” to don clothes before stepping out and about.
Been a while since I heard that song! I once sang it in convent school and everyone was kind of…badly surprised. 😀 Great take on the prompt, I love the last line!
Thanks, Varsha! As soon as that line popped into my head, crowding out more sinister images, I knew I had my last line. 😀
My Inner Zombie likes this post, Nancy, and so do I! What an interesting character Felicia is / was!
Thanks, Tom. Some die without having lived . . . other live even after they’ve died. 😯
Wow! Just checked out your Zombie Cat! You’ve got some real talent, Tom.
http://wellheregoes.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/halloween-fever/
Well I guess this just goes to show you anybody can make a mistake! HA! Delightful Michael! 😀
Ooh . . . I’ve got it! WP made a mistake. 😀
That’s weird that my comment for Michael’s blog showed up here! LOL! But I like this. I think the first thing I’d do is get a drink of water too! HA
Thanks, Linda. That has happened to me before . . . the internet wires got crossed, perhaps? Or maybe we should blame it on zombies and things that go *bump* in the night?
BOO! 😯
I’ve never thought about these instances as being zombie-like, Nancy, but you’re right. They really are.
I don’t know if I’ve ever heard of anything like this before, except in movies like The Night of the Living Dead.
Have you? 😯
No. It was fascinating.
I thought maybe you’d heard tales around the Charleston Jail of the living dead walking amongst us.
We just got back from a haunted trail at De Soto! Lots of spooky spooks lurking about the woods with . . . the Skunk Ape! 😯
Of course, if that was in South Africa it would just be a typical administrative botch-up …
As it is, though … spoo-key!
Bwahaha . . . a mismatched name in the hospital morgue? A case of mistaken identity?
I did a post once about the wrong guy going into the coffin. He was dead, though. 😉
Just as well, or he might have been seriously miffed.
His widow was pissed . . . she held a funeral for the wrong guy!
Haunting and beautiful poem. Fun ending.
Thanks, lumdog. I was surprised by the number of submissions with a humorous twist to them . . . turning a fun challenge into a funny one. 😀
Very SCARY! 😦
Sounds like an interesting case . . . but I’m not persuaded that someone could be alive 20 years after they died.
Either Felicia didn’t really die OR the “zombie” wasn’t Felicia.
Yeah, I’d be thirsty, too! I love that ending. Great job on the zombie prompt…I didn’t even know where to begin with that one 🙂
I’m generally amazed with what you do with the Trifecta prompts . . . I figured your kids would be “zombiefied” for the challenge. “Must. Eat. Ice. Cream.” 😉
Way to make her one of us… Funny how thirsty I feel.
Thanks, Kymm. Reading about her “dusty feet” and “parched lips” makes me thirsty too.
I like how it puts the humanity back into the dead. We can all relate to “thirsty”!
Thanks, FKC. This challenge got me into the mood for a spook~tacular halloween! Boo! 😯
You’ve kicked off Halloween week with a doozy! 🙂 Creepy indeed!
Thanks, Debra. I have a few more Halloween Treats in store . . . or will they be Tricks? 😯
Yup, very chilling. Yikes!
Thanks, Karen. As Forest Gump used to say, “Spooky is as Spooky does.” 😉
I am reading this late at night, may it not color my dreams. Very spooky and well done! 🙂
This is not a topic I would choose . . . even at Halloween. But Trifecta’s prompt prompted me. 😯
Great job with the prompt! Thanks for linking up. This is super creepy.
Thanks for the prompt. Definitely outside my normal writing sphere.
You’d be thirsty too!! I love it!!
Thanks, Barbara. After being spooked, a good laugh dispels the spine-tingles. 😀
Ugh I walked into my husband’s man cave to find him watching some horrible zombie movie this morning. Needless to say I ran back out. Probably part of his plan. I can be scared enough without that kind of stuff.
I haven’t watched zombie movies since my teens when Creature Feature was a favorite show to watch late at night. Especially around Halloween.
Now, I realize that images let into my brain stay there . . . like zombies . . . so I guard the entrance jealously. 😯
Wow. That’s heavy!
It definitely kicked off the Halloween tingles for me!