Restless

by Shawn Scarber

Debra ran away from her old life to a small Texas town with hopes she could begin again, but on a stormy night one of the residents of the local cemetery comes to her house looking to reclaim the past. Debra tries her best to connect to the teenage zombie girl, but whatever she doesn't understand she'll just make up, because in this story it's not easy to know which one is the real monster; the zombie hungry for a certain type of revenge or the pathological liar trying desperately to hide her mistakes?

If you like genre-bending urban fantasy with a dark side, you'll enjoy this novelette about a woman who befriends a zombie and discovers a path to redemption.

40 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 19, 2012

About the author

Probably best described as a process junky, Shawn Scarber has been studying story craft and the process of writing fiction for 13 years. He’s written many post on story patterns and the craft of storytelling.

He’s been a member of multiple writing workshops and is generally active in DFW Writers’ Workshop, Future Classics DFW Speculative Fiction Writing Group, and is still actively posting work to Online Writing Workshop for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.

He’s a Clarion West 2006 graduate and a Codexian.

He lives in North Texas with his teenage daughter and pernicious cat. He’s worked in the IT industry for well over 16 years and enjoys writing applications for the web as a day job.

He has a number of short stories published in semi-pro magazines, collections, and he self-published the novella Restless in 2012. His writing goal is to sell to the professional short story publications and magazines, complete a novel for professional agency representation, and eventually build a career as a speculative fiction author.