“Easy now, kids, save it for later when I’m not around,” Doc said with a grin.
For dinner we splurged on canned ham, fresh salad (which isn’t very special for Michelle and me anymore), some very nice Old Mission Peninsula wine, and Michelle had baked a cake mix she scavenged. It wasn’t a white cake, just a yellow one, but the chocolate icing made it pretty tasty. Doc had his fair share of bourbon.
I asked about the flowers—that was Doc’s doing. He’d scoured the neighborhood, looking for early daffodills and vernal witch hazel. God bless him!
After dinner we sat around, drinking more wine (except Doc—he stuck with bourbon), laughing and talking and listening to some of Doc’s tall tales of life as a doctor. But about 10:30, Doc announced he was calling it a night, and gave us a surprise wedding gift: He’d changed the bedding upstairs and was sleeping up there, giving us the basement alone for the night.
“Don’t think I’m doing it for your sake,” he said, “I’d like to get some sleep tonight. This is your honeymoon, after all, and you young lovers have a tendency to get loud.” Michelle and I both blushed, but Doc laughed it off. “Enjoy yourselves. I’m very happy for you and very jealous.” After filling a highball glass with bourbon, he grabbed his sleeping bag, headed up the stairs, and closed the trap door behind him.
“We have the place to ourselves!” I marveled, as I heard the trap door close.
“We don’t have to be quiet . . . !” Michelle sighed.
“We can walk around naked.”
We raced for the bedroom, fingers already unbuttoning our clothes, while visions of sugarplums—or something even better—danced in our heads.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James is a graphic designer by profession who spends much of his time engaged in his favorite hobbies; writing, photography, singing in a variety of choirs and a barbershop quartet, hydroponic gardening, brewing and drinking beer, and perfecting his Zombie Blood hot sauce (“Reanimate Your Taste Buds”). He lives in Athens, Georgia with his wife, Gretchen, while dreaming of northern Michigan. This is his first novel.
Follow the author on www.myzombiehoneymoon.com for the continuing saga of Life in the Age of Zombies, including information about the soon to be published sequel, Zombies In Paradise.
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December 24th
December 26th— St. Stephen’s Day
December 27th
December 29th
December 30th
New Year’s Eve
January 3rd
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February 1st
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