Beneath These Trees, The Dead

Description

Eli and Marla track down dead people, looking for answers so those who lost someone to the rains and the walking dead. Their job is providing answers and ensuring the recently departed aren’t coming back to cause problems for their still-living family.

It’s a good job, and Eli’s glad he’s got one. Good jobs are scarce these days.

But some recent trouble with the militia, who decides who can and can’t enter the safety of town, has him wondering if he really wants to trust Marla with his life.

Beneath These Trees, The Dead by Peter M. Ball is part of the Red Rain Collection, a fiercely weird series of short stories which blends the dirty realism of Raymond Carver with the absurdity of the zombie apocalypse. Snack on these delicious morsels of fiction between longer reads or devour the entire series in a single sitting.

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