Rating: Not rated
Tags: Fiction, Horror, bizarro
Summary
"A new spin on the post-apocalypse genre. One you won't
soon forget." --Garrett Cook, author of A God of Hungry
Walls There is a grocery store. The last grocery store in the
world. It stands alone in the middle of a vast wasteland that
was once our world. The open sign is still illuminated,
brightening the black landscape. It can be seen from miles
away, even through the poisonous red ash. Every night at the
exact same time, the store comes alive. It becomes exactly as
it was before the world ended. Its shelves are replenished
with fresh food and water. Ghostly shoppers walk the aisles.
The scent of freshly baked breads can be smelled from the
rust-caked parking lot. For generations, a small community of
survivors, hideously mutated from the toxic atmosphere, have
survived by collecting goods from the store. But it is not an
easy task. Decades ago, before the world was destroyed, there
was a terrible thing that happened in this place. A group of
armed men in brown paper masks descended on the shopping
center, massacring everyone in sight. This horrible event
reoccurs every night, in the exact same manner. And the only
way the wastelanders can gather enough food for their
survival is to traverse the killing spree, memorize the
patterns, and pray they can escape the bloodbath in tact. From the godfather of bizarro fiction, Carlton Mellick
III, comes an absurd horror story unlike anything you've read
before.