I kept waiting for more pieces of the story to arrive, but it really is just this short. I enjoyed the story but I do wish it had been longer. Also, I will be planting plenty of rhubarb this spring. As a precautionary measure. ( )

When Okie comes home to find her mother covered in blood and eating her father's intestines in the kitchen, she quickly calls her grandmother, Clio in Canada for help. Since Okie can't bring herself to kill her mother, Clio arranges for a transportation service to safely bring her granddaughter and zombie daughter-in-law to her home in Canada. With some rhubarb pipe, link sausages, and a little luck, they both might just survive.

The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home doesn't redefine the genre in anyway, but it's darkly humorous and rather fun. The story unfolds from both Okie's and Clio's point of view, and I really liked them both. They both have a wry sense of humor, especially Clio, who's a no-nonsense, I-can-kick-your-ass-using-just-my-purse kind of old woman. She's not nice or soft or comforting kind of grandmother most people would expect — in fact, she's somewhat mean and not someone who you want to get on the bad side of — but she gets shit done and knows how to survive and I love her.

The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home is a short novel distributed exclusively on Wattpad, and is available free for anyone to read. Both Atwood and Alderman endorse Wattpad as a site for writers to share their work and gain a following, and the site works like an e-publisher with its own app. There are a few well known authors sharing snippets on there, as well as some great newbies, along with a lot of mediocre work. You kind of have to slog through to find the good stuff, but Wattpad is worth taking a look at for anyone hoping for some free reads. ( )

Read from August 11 to 23, 2013

Begin the story here: http://bit.ly/happyzombie

Learn more about the project here: http://bit.ly/PQE2O5

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I read the first couple of chapters in October 2012 when this project started, but then it sat on my currently reading shelf on GR for the next several months. Finally at the beginning of this month, I decided to make some progress.

This is a good story, but I felt like it was missing a lot. I hope it have Wattpad the exposed it needed. ( )

I kept waiting for more pieces of the story to arrive, but it really is just this short. I enjoyed the story but I do wish it had been longer. Also, I will be planting plenty of rhubarb this spring. As a precautionary measure. ( )