Zombie Poll!

by Ellie Heller
Coming in January, Noble Romance will be putting out a series of Lesbians vs Zombies titles. A not insignificant number of the authors of these novellas are also ERA members. The stories range the gamut from hot-hot-hot to sensual, contemporary to historical, humorous to, well, okay, I personally have not seen one without some humor, but then I have only seen snippets of the ones members of our group have worked on.

The zombies, though, have been the kicker. They range from…well, actually, I’m not going to say. Instead, I thought I’d do a poll, see what you all thought were necessities for zombies to be, um, zombies. We’ll find out later if the authors agree.

So here we go, three parts. Please put your responses in the comments, thanks.

A) Appearance. Zombies ‘should’ have:

1. Pale and/or decaying skin – definitely not glittering
2. Visible scars or blood spatters– which can be theirs or someone else’s
3. ‘Unseeing’ / white eyes – all the better to creep you with my dear
4. Any two of the above (clarify which)
5. 1, 2 & 3 
6. Other (explain in comments)

B) Physical abilities. Zombies ‘should’: 

1. Shuffle, not walk – rigor mortis, dude
2. Have super human strength – Clark Kent watch out
3. Be uber difficult to kill – um, dead already!
4. Be nocturnal – undead and daylight don’t mix
5. Any combination of the above (clarify which)
6. Other (explain in comments)

C) Mental capacity. Zombies:

1. Have no thoughts, you know ‘cause their brain died when they did
2. Act on instinct only – mainly the one which says they need to kill humans
3. Be unable to talk - see 1 & 2 for reasons why
4. Emulate lemmings, i.e. let’s all follow that dude off a cliff
5. All of the above
6. Other (explain in comments)

I look forward to seeing the results.