James was the boy I was going to marry. I loved him like I'd never loved anything else. We were seven when we met. He was seventeen when he died.
You might think that was the end of our story, but it wasn't. Death is never the end of anything, not in Zombietown. Zombietown is what other people call it, of course. Those who live here call it by its name, Lychgate. In Old English, "lych" means "corpse." James says that means we're a town that's always been touched by death, but it wasn't always like it is now. Lychgate used to be a nice place to live. Orderly houses set out in neat arrangements, pretty rows of streets decked in flowers, and the Duke's palace at the north end of town, with Corpse Hill rising up behind it. Then, one day, in the early morning, when people were just getting up and starting to get the morning paper, and putting the coffee on, and turning on the radio to hear the Duke's daily address, Corpse Hill came to life. The dirt sloughed off the graves like old skin. The earth peeled back and the dead came out, blinking in the sun like newborn kittens. They limped and shuffled and crawled. They turned their eye sockets toward the path that leads down to the town. And then they began to walk...
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Music:
GodFather Theme-"Speak Softly" (Love/Classic Version)-By Nina Rota
"The Man Who Can't Be Moved" by The Script
"Dead Island Trailer Theme" by Savalas
"Last Believer, Drop Dead" by Secret Machines
"Sad Orchestra" by unknown
"Songs from a secret Garden" by Rolf Lovland
"Time Changed Everything" by Nyctalgia
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