Run, Rabbit

by Louise Maskill

Pop bought me my first zomb when I was eighteen. She was a real bitch, wiry and evil, and she won me a few races before her left leg dropped off and she couldn’t race no more.Imagine a future after the zombie apocalypse; after humanity has tried to eat itself, lived through the worst times, and come out the other side. A few zombies remain, penned up in safe zones, but most everything else is pretty much back to normal.Obviously, the thing to do is start racing zombies.Eric has a small racing string, and makes decent bucks - until one evening, when he spots an old friend and ends up getting much closer to the action than he wants to...

15 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 23, 2022

About the author

Louise Maskill lives and works in Derbyshire, UK, surrounded by books, cats and apple trees. She is, among other things, a writer, a reader, an editor, a runner, an historian, a psychologist, a musician, a stitcher and a knitter.

She self-publishes fiction under her own imprint, Hagthorn Press - the latest is her new fantasy novel Cailleach, along with a growing collection of short stories.

She edits other people’s words for a (partial) living, and has written or contributed to fifteen short non-fiction books on local dialect, history and walking for Bradwell Books and Curlew Press.