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Zombies, Werewolves, Whores, and More!

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by Jerrod Balzer


  Lucian’s back was to him, so his father hoped he wouldn’t notice. When the new customer sat in a booth next to theirs, however, he cringed in his seat for the inevitable conflict.

  Lucian sipped his apple juice and crumpled a cookie wrapper with his tiny fist. “Look at him, Father. He thinks he can show up early to attack before I’m fully developed. The nerve! Well, I’ll show him.” He threw a chicken nugget. It smacked the guy’s cheek and landed on his fish filet.

  The bearded man set the nugget aside and said to the father without looking. “Please control your kid, sir.”

  “I apologize.” He turned to his son. “Settle down, will you? That’s not who you think it is. He’s just some hippie with a hangover.”

  Lucian arched an eyebrow. “I would never think that you, of all people, would be a nonbeliever.” He threw his opened container of barbecue sauce at the hippie and spoke in his deep voice. “Fear me!”

  A nugget was one thing, but now the guy had sticky sauce in his hair. He stood to face them and yelled, “You little brat! What’s wrong with you?”

  Lucian banged on the high chair. “Release me, Father, so that I might do battle!”

  The hippie looked at the father. “Is he for real? Does he need his pills or something?”

  Everyone else in the place stopped to watch the scene unfold. The father wrapped his sandwich up and prepared to leave. “I’m sorry, folks. We’ll be on our way, now.”

  “No!” Lucian raised his hands. The sky darkened outside as storm clouds gathered. The lights flickered and sparked. “The end of the world is upon us. Armageddon will take place here and now!”

  The building rumbled and the spectators panicked.

  “That’s a good idea,” the father announced. “You should all evacuate, immediately.” He turned to the hippie. “Especially you.”

  The hippie didn’t move, though. He was too enthralled with the situation. Meanwhile, restaurant employees left through the rear exit and customers headed for the door.

  The high chair crumbled apart, leaving the toddler hovering in the air. “I require an audience.” The floor next to him cracked and busted apart. The nerdy guy with a mop cowered in a corner, terrified but also upset because he’d just cleaned that area.

  Demons crawled from the hole and grabbed anyone who hadn’t left yet, forcing them to watch. Lucian clapped his hands together. “I need music!” The soda dispensers belched out ghosts, and they flew into the choir members. They stiffened, eyes turning coal black, and they began to sing in spooky Latin.

  The father attempted to do his job. “Lucian, if you keep this up, you’ll be getting a time out!”

  “Forget that!” the hippie said. “He needs a tranquilizer gun!”

  Lucian wrung his fingers together and squinted his eyes. “Oh, you’d love that, wouldn’t you? To Hell with you, Savior!” Red lightning shot from his eyes, throwing his target against the wall. The hippie looked dead for a moment, but then groaned and shook his head.

  A sinister cackle left the toddler’s grinning lips, echoed by the demons around him. “Now, to finish him off!” Lucian levitated closer, his eyes glowing to another full charge. “Die!” The building began to shake apart from the force of his voice.

  The hippie jumped to his feet, took the mop from the nerd, and smacked the kid as hard as he could. Lightning shot in all directions as Lucian flew through a window and tumbled across the parking lot. The hippie dropped the mop and smirked. “Spare the rod, spoil the child.”

  “Again,” the father said, “I’m sorry about all of this.” He ran outside to join his son.

  The hippie looked around the room. The demons were still there, glancing at each other as they wondered what they should do. Finally, the biggest one shrugged and jumped back into the pit. The others followed, along with the spirits that were inside the choir members. Then the restaurant shook once more before collapsing into itself, sucking into the pit piece-by-piece until all that stood were the people left inside; most were broken and battered from booths and glass smashing against them as the Snappy Snack Shack went to Hell.

  In the parking lot, the father picked up his moaning child, saying, “Do you see, now, why I never take you anywhere?”

  Lucian coughed. “I’m still hungry, Father. I crave ice cream.”

  He sighed. “Sure.”

  The sky cleared as they left, and the hippie winced at the sunlight as he brushed drywall from his arms. The lady with vomit on her chest ran to him from the bathroom area. “My arm is broken! Please, you’ve gotta help me!”

  The hippie rolled his eyes, healed her with a touch of his finger, and left the rest for the paramedics to deal with.

  And now for a poem! (Don’t run, though. It’s funny)

  The Little Corpse

  Stanley would punch you in the crotch, sneering

  It’s “little person,” fucker!

  The last one was his night manager,

  at the Snappy Snack Shack. It was always

  the same, job after job. See that Ford truck

  with the camper on the back? With the garbage

  scattered around it and the burn barrel in front?

  Stanley’s crotch punching kept him sleeping there

  and not the roach motel room that he had

  when times were good. The crack whores next door

  thought he was so adorable. After the truck

  stopped working, he sat in front of a First National.

  When business men and finance execs

  refused his whiskey scented pan-handling,

  and called him a stupid, dirty midget,

  he punched them in the crotch.

  Finally, an old wrinkled guy in a flannel shirt

  gave him a twenty dollar bill and said,

  Will you help clean my house?

  They didn’t talk while they walked. He was led

  to the bathroom, a tub full of soiled filet knives.

  Now Stanley’s job is easy - keeping his friends

  company. They are just like him, still and staring

  wide-eyed. He’s sprawled on an obese woman

  made lighter when she burst a few days ago.

  Her stench is all over him now, but he’s still happy.

  In his new home, they don’t call him midget.

  Or little person. Or anything at all.

  The Adventures of Sidney and Rodney

  (A story written in the 90s while under the influence of hallucinogenic mushrooms)

  Once there was a happy little smurf that lived in a great big mushroom house. He didn’t live there long, though, because a rabbit ate him up and moved into his mushroom. This was a weird-looking rabbit. He was pink with one chewed-up ear. He hated it when other animals asked why his ear was chewed up because it made him feel stupid. You see, he’s the one that chewed his ear up. One night he had been really messed up and thought his ear was the boogieman coming to get him. He got the sucker good, but it was his ear.

  So one day the rabbit (his name was Sidney, by the way) was walking in the woods when a big brown bear came up to him and asked, “Why are you pink and what’s wrong with your ear?”

  This made Sidney so mad that he jumped up and bit the bear’s nose.

  “Why did you do that?” the bear asked.

  “Because you’re a big, ugly butthole with a scary booger hanging out of your nose. It was so scary that I thought I’d bite it.”

  Then they got hit by a train. The people in the train didn’t care that they ran over a bear and a funny little rabbit. They had better things to do.

  Sidney and the bear (we’ll call him Rodney) were very upset, so they gunned down a busload of Keebler Elves and drove the bus into the train.

  “Hah!” Sidney said to the bleeding train people. “That will teach you to run me over and squish me all over the tracks!”

  Rodney the bear came up behind him and agreed. “Yeah!”

  Sidney was startled, so he turned around and poked Rod
ney’s eye out with his little chewed-up ear.

  “Why did you do that?” Rodney asked.

  “I hate you!” Sidney screamed. “Leave me alone! I want to kill you!”

  Rodney stuck around, though, because he didn’t think Sidney really meant it.

  So Sidney was hopping along one day, trying to ignore the fact that there was a big, brown bear behind him, when suddenly he was hit in the head by a golf ball.

  “Ouch!” he said. “Who did that?”

  An old man came from over the hill with a golf club and gasped. “There’s a weird-looking pink bunny and a bear on the course!”

  Sidney ran up to him. “Look, you old shriveled-up human. Don’t throw any more balls at me. It hurts.”

  The old man was frightened and tried to hit the pink bunny rabbit with his golf club, but Rodney attacked him and tore him to pieces.

  “There,” Rodney said, and then to Sidney, “Now do you like me?”

  “No,” said Sidney, and he bit Rodney’s tail off.

  “Darn it,” Rodney groaned. “I wish you’d stop doing things like that.”

  Sidney didn’t know what to do. He really didn’t want Rodney around. Then he had an idea that maybe Rodney could be fun.

  So the little pink bunny walked to a McDonald’s and said to Rodney, “They spit on me!” Rodney went inside and killed everyone within. Then Sidney ate all the food inside. He only ate vegetables, though, because rabbits don’t eat meat (well, maybe smurfs). Sidney offered Rodney some hamburger, but he was already busy eating the old ladies and puppy dogs that he had killed.

  Upon exploring the kitchen of McDonald’s, Sidney accidentally shut himself inside a microwave and he was nuked. Then the cops showed up and shot Rodney while he was taking a poop on the counter.

  Shroom Haiku

  (All written while under the influence of... well, you get it)

  I can't move my legs

  Bones have turned into Jell-o

  And I have to pee

  Eating this pizza

  Feels like flesh and slime to me

  Stomach is in knots

  Peter saw Jesus

  Pooping in a hole outside

  He said, "Holy shit!"

  Who is doing that?

  Running a chainsaw at night

  Outside my window

  Climb to the tree's top

  In my new neighbor's front lawn

  Caw like a big bird

  Spiders in the tree

  I should jump to the ground, but

  Sharks are in the grass

  Look to the bright sky

  So full of swarming seagulls

  Swooping at the car

  Look at the fairy

  Flying happily around

  Bug zapper got it

  Restaurant regroup

  Quick! Everyone act sober!

  Cops are here on break

  Pardon me, Lady

  I must confess my rude act

  I ate your muffin

  Those deadly blue smurfs

  Waiting just outside my door

  With pitchforks in hand

  People are staring

  I can feel wind on my butt

  Damn it! I'm naked

  Look in the corner

  A woman writhing around

  Behind the curtain

  The blood-soaked butcher

  Comes out of the woods and asks

  You want some chicken?

  Oh dear, my anus!

  It's spewing odorous fumes

  Noses take cover!

  Glow-in-the-dark stars

  Stuck to the ceiling fan blades

  Shoot across the room

  Weird guy sits by tree

  Hey! Wanna buy a pine cone?

  Smile and walk away

  Damn redneck woman!

  Brought her lice-infested kids

  Get her out of here

  They don't understand

  Why I laugh for no reason

  They are just jealous

  No sense in yelling

  Honey runs smoother than shit

  Calm down and be nice

  I will stomp on you

  Squish you all between my toes

  Jolly Green Giant

  Crazy old Santa

  He's drunk again on whiskey

  Flailing in the trash

  For your heinous crimes

  Six of your toes will fall off

  Eighty years from now

  The big brown cow says,

  Look at those crazy humans

  Playing in our shit

  I see a turkey

  Kill it! Put food up its butt

  Time for Thanksgiving

  Rabbit in the woods

  Something black stuck to its fur

  It's a poop-sickle

  My head is a zit

  Got to squeeze all the puss out

  Crater on my neck

  Brand new summer shoes

  Walking in the fresh green grass

  Stepped in doggy-doo

  Refrigerator

  A cow sticks its head inside

  It's looking for milk

  Nice cold ice cream cone

  Dropped it on the dirty floor

  Eat it anyway

  Have to pee real bad

  Nasty, dirty urinal

  Better flush with foot

  Warm breeze through your hair

  Smells rotten, you wonder why

  It came from my butt

  Strange frog in winter

  Leaning against the wet wall

  Damn thing can't move now

  The fly approaches

  It eats all my food and says,

  "Get me some more, bitch!"

  My head hurts like hell

  Pounding hammer in my skull

  Better drink a beer

  Pooping in the woods

  It feels so nice but then Oops!

  Got some on my pants

  Crazy little smurfs

  Living in mushroom houses

  They will take your soul

  Look at that cute kid

  Eating a candy bar with-

  Finger up his nose

  A pile of towels

  Laying on the bathroom floor

  They're gonna get me

  Girl sits on the couch

  Legs are crossed Indian-style

  Big lips will eat her

  Knocking on the door

  Difficult to concentrate

  Let me poop in peace

  Guy passed out on floor

  Drank way too much of that juice

  Or could he be dead?

  Morning birds singing

  Lovely sounds for all to hear

  Keeps me from sleeping

  I have a question

  How many farts does it take

  To get you to leave?

  Table of Contents

  Zombie Bastard

  Part One: Road Trip Runs

  Part Two: Cursed at Birth

  Part Three: Zombie Bastard

  Part Four: The Witch Bitch

  Wolf Plugs

  More Than a Woman

  Bad Church

  No Returns

  Tom Sawyer’s Last Adventure

  Bonus #1

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Bonus #2

  Preview #1

  Preview #2

  Bonus #3

  Armageddon in the Snappy Snack Shack

  The Little Corpse

  The Adventures of Sidney and Rodney

  Shroom Haiku

  Table of Contents

  Zombie Bastard Part One: Road Trip Runs

  Part Two: Cursed at Birth

  Part Three: Zombie Bastard

  Part Four: The Witch Bitch

  Wolf Plugs

  More Than a Woman

 

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