The Widower

by K. Bartholomew

The Widower, by K. Bartholomew.

Meet Suleman Akhtar, owner and proprietor of the Bindi Indian restaurant.

Business is terrible! Suleman has the loan sharks on his back, meat suppliers cutting him off, a restaurant that’s falling apart and health inspectors threatening to close him down. However, when his customers begin changing into zombies, things take an even stranger turn for the worse. Perhaps Suleman can somehow make use of these zombies to solve all his problems?

This paranormal zombie comedy contains bad language and scenes of gore.

Genres: Zombies, Short Stories

41 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 28, 2015

About the author

Zombie author K. Bartholomew. I live in Leeds, UK and I write zombie fiction for real fans of the genre.

Reviews

[Netanella · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this as part of the zombie collection, "Zombie Pandemic", as the intro piece. As a zomcom set in an Indian restaurant with hapless owner Suleman and his slow nephew Mandeep "Deep", the story had some humorous moments. At first, I sympathized with Suleman and his misfortunes in running his shack of a restaurant, with its Widowmaker main dish, advertised as the hottest dish created. Despite his penchant for offing his customers for non-payment and stringing them up in the shed, Sule and his slow nephew were actually pretty hilarious. The incident with the health inspector, and his dream of being a trapeze artist, was very nicely done. For any indie story, this was blessedly free of grammatical errors, something for which I am grateful. And, I'm also grateful for my app that allows me to check on the health inspection reports for local restaurants. :)

[Valentin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Widower

Great short story about zombies. Characters were awesome and imaginary. Good story line and development. Waiting on next short story.

[Paulette Waters · Rating 4 out of 5]

Zombie

I really enjoyed reading the short story. I will be reading more of your books in the future. You are a great author.