Not The End

by Kevin Carr

When Hugh wakes up from a coma, he finds himself in a terrifying reality. A highly contagious virus has ravaged humanity a matter of weeks. Kept prisoner in a hospital bed, he slowly learns about the zombie apocalypse, but he is not being given the full story.

Soon, Hugh discovers some essential and terrifying differences between these zombies and those he has seen in movies. He must use this information to escape and try to save his family.

36 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 26, 2015

About the author

Kevin Carr has been writing since he was a child, and he has been writing professionally since he was in his teenage years. While working in the textbook industry in the 1990s, Kevin published several short fiction stories and multiple features in various science fiction magazines from 1994 through 1999.

He spent several years as an independent filmmaker in the early 2000s and later became a featured writer on some of the bigger web sites devoted to film and analysis of cinema. From 2002 until now, Kevin has been writing movie reviews and features for a variety of web sites and print publications. His movie reviews can also be heard throughout the nation on dozens of radio stations in call-in segments as well as his radio program Fat Guys at the Movies.

When he's not spending hours in a movie theater, he's enjoying life with his wife, three sons, and dog in his home town of Columbus, Ohio.

All of Kevin's books are available on Kindle, with the novels and short story collection also available in paperback. Several of his works are making their debut in audiobook format on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes.

Reviews

[Becks! · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[Don Holliday · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very solid zombie tale for a short story/novelette. I'm pretty good at guessing story plots in advance, and I have to admit that the author "got me" on at least one of his unique angles -- and how many times can you say THAT about a zombie story? I typically worry about buying Kindle ebooks that I know are just a single short story, because you never know how much value you may receive, but "Not The End" delivered excellent value for the price and it was a fun read (especially on Halloween Day, when I bought it!) It would be easy to see this world become more developed, and I'd enjoy hearing more stories about these characters as well as other individuals I have yet to meet. The one poke I'd take at it is that it needs one more pass from an editor or proof reader. I found a couple errors in word usage and pronoun mix-ups. Nothing "fatal" that hurts my opinion or rating of the book, but in a shorter work like this even those 2 or 3 errors stand out a little more than they would in a longer story.

[Randy Harmelink · Rating 3 out of 5]

Certainly a zombie apocalypse story with some unique twists and turns. Worth the time to read. However, a number of homonym errors took me out of the story while I was reading it.