In underground horror writer Von Hollister’s short story "Field of Brains," minor league baseball player Barry Remy heads south of the border to play winter ball. La vida is good, but el muerte is better: After being bitten by a zombie, he becomes the most-feared slugger in Mexico. The only downside is finding enough brains to keep his body from decomposing. . . .
This Kindle-exclusive ebook also includes a bonus story, "The Unnatural," the terrifying sequel to "Field of Brains."
Publication Date: February 1, 2012
Publisher: Order of St Nick
Formats: Kindle ebook exclusive
Excerpt
When he stepped onto the baseball diamond with his wooden bat in hand, nobody could pitch past him. Power surged through his body when he dug his back foot into the batter’s box and tapped homeplate with the tip of his bat. Opposing pitchers shuddered and said prayers before pitching to Barry Remy.
His days and nights blurred together until they became little more than a slideshow of at-bats, drinking, and women. His brain stopped storing memories in places that he could access. Maybe his brain stopped recording altogether. Some memories surfaced from time-to-time, but he couldn’t place them:
Like how two Mexican cops were giving him the shakedown over a dead cheerleader whose skull had been cracked open and emptied like a piñata.
Like how those same two Mexican cops disappeared.
Like how Hammer caught him covered in blood, hunched over the lifeless body of a naked woman in Hermosillo.
Like how Hammer disappeared too…
After Hammer went missing, Barry didn’t talk to anyone on the team. It was just as well. He’d heard them talk about his pale skin, about the sores that covered his arms and back, about the blank look in his eyes. About how he smelled like a dead mufeta.
They all thought he was doing something more than drinking, that he might be on drugs. He wondered sometimes himself. . . .
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