What do you think about zombies?

I have been lurking the spaces of reddit for a while now. Obviously, I’m paying careful attention to the areas discussing newsletters. One piece of advice I was given - was to have a story series serialized within the newsletter. That way there’s something for the subscribers to actively read while waiting for the bigger news updates.

Which is great considering where my train of thought was going. See, I realized one day that I’ve never consumed zombie media. I don’t feel any desire to do so. The walking dead, my boyfriend’s a zombie, and when I saw the essay option on how I’d survive the zombie apocalypse, I realized I was really out of the loop.

But why?

Why did I avoid the zombie section of media for so long?

So I went where we all go - youtube.

Basically- zombie stories are about nothing. “We must survive!” But why? I have always known that if the zombies were to show up, I would simply eat a bunch of food and then end it myself. Even when the Amazing World of Gumball poked fun at the “end of the world” medium, I felt no desire to push myself to survive in such a setting. When I played those zombie base expansion video games on my phone, I again felt nothing.

Why do I want to push myself to survive with a bleak future?

My parents survived poverty because they left their home countries to enter the United States. And now, they own a house. Their dreams were materialized because they still lived in a world where it was possible. My grandparents, and their parents, survived wars and instability because they had a constant community around them to depend on for food and companionship.

But all the media I’ve consumed shows a lack of trust, a heightened desire for lust instead of companionship, and no promise of any future with a “happy ending”. Why would I want to suffer through macho idiots who will ultimately end up using me for my body?

Nah- I’d rather skip to the end and not even try the hard stuff.

So- why not write a story about that?

A story about someone who doesn’t want to suffer through the zombies or make himself live. Poking fun at the stereotypes and tropes within this genre and being just an overall funny short story series.