Inside, you'll find the first two short stories from the long awaited Stay Dead series; The Stranger and Tunnel Rats as well as two other shorter works. These stories take place during a cataclysmic event where the recently deceased return to life and hunger for the
flesh of the living.
In The Stranger, Danni seemingly finds safety in an apartment building overrun by the living dead, but are her elder saviors a blessing or a curse?
Tunnel Rats takes you beneath the busy streets of Titan City where Bark (a homeless man) is having a hard enough time surviving without having to worry about the dead returning to life--this wasn’t the type of change he was looking for.
The dead walk, and they won’t stay dead.
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By Big Winters
Aug 6, 2010
I have read of a number of Steve Wands' work by now, and one thing that is consistent is that he is always able to bring a new angle on what has become a old and tired storyline. All the stories in this collection are set in a world in which the zombies rise again; with 'The Stranger' focusing on a young girl needed help from the elderly trapped in the city, and 'Tunnel Rats' focusing on the poor trying to escape a city. As a result, both look to avoid the usual teenager generic storylines that have stagnated this genre, creating a more humanizing and personal stories. The flash fiction, however, is where he really excels. Without the need of extensive description and backstory, Wands is free to focus on his unique and interesting ideas. Something short, something different, and something definitely worth a look.
"Stay Dead: The Stranger & Tunnel Rats" Ok, just finished the book the same day I got it. Steve Wands captivated me with his macarbe descriptions and malevolent dialogues. The Stranger was quite gripping to me, being that each character came to life upon their introduction. I could instantly feel my heart pound at each climatic moment the story played out. I would actually read faster! Also, in The Stranger and in Tunnel Rats the elements of the stories were written with such graphic vision I could see and almost smell some of the grotesque ambiguities that were explained. In a whole, I was moved by both stories powerful notions of a post-apocalyptic society ridden by undead mongrols with a craving for the living. My only mild dissatisfaction was the length, they left me hungry for more. This book of short stories will be my definitive recommendation being that each story had inflicted my imagination about a world where wickedness reigns and that hope is sad myth of the... More > past. I look forward to much more from Steve Wands...if I am still alive to have the mortal pleasure to do so.< Less
