Mom's Journal of the Zombie Years

[zombiepreparation]

"An extreme tactical response by members of the Texas National Guard has tipped the balance in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area showing that swift and decisive action can reduce NRS infections enough that whole cities can be retaken. The model is being studied for implementation in the quarantine zones." WAY TO GO, DALLAS!

You are quoting something from the story, right? Where was that? Closer to the end? Somehow I missed that 'whole cities can be retaken' part.

GO BIG "D" !

[AK47sForAll]

Man...I ran out of story... You never understand all the MOAR zombie posts until you run out of story.

WHERES THE REST??? Lol man Kathy just keep dropping off the face of the earth...Maybe that Miami Zombie attack made her bug out?

[skarface]

"An extreme tactical response by members of the Texas National Guard has tipped the balance in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area showing that swift and decisive action can reduce NRS infections enough that whole cities can be retaken. The model is being studied for implementation in the quarantine zones." WAY TO GO, DALLAS!

You are quoting something from the story, right? Where was that? Closer to the end? Somehow I missed that 'whole cities can be retaken' part.

GO BIG "D" !

Yeah, I must have missed that, too. Huh. Good sign for MJOTZY America.

[shadows on the trees]

Here I am, four years late to the story, desparately wanting to know if Kathy in FL ever published this in any other format- AND desperate to see this on the big screen with Holly Hunter as Sissy. PLEASE!!! Back to reading...

[shadows on the trees]

"An extreme tactical response by members of the Texas National Guard has tipped the balance in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area showing that swift and decisive action can reduce NRS infections enough that whole cities can be retaken. The model is being studied for implementation in the quarantine zones." WAY TO GO, DALLAS!

You are quoting something from the story, right? Where was that? Closer to the end? Somehow I missed that 'whole cities can be retaken' part.

GO BIG "D" !

Yeah, I must have missed that, too. Huh. Good sign for MJOTZY America.

Sorry I just saw this post, skarface. It was close to the beginning of the story.

[RoscoTronic]

Just caught up to the latest post. Feel like the 'regulars' are part of the family now, with Mother Hen keeping everybody fed!

Kathy, what an incredibly selfless thing you have done to share this with us! Thank you and thanks to your family for sharing you and your imagination for a little bit of time, here and there.

Thanks for the MOAR Zombies keeping me in stitches between the posts, what a great energy in this thread! Hats off to everybody who 'keeps the peace' and realizes that this is our little escape. Time to get back to the real world...

[DAVE KI]

Man...I ran out of story... You never understand all the MOAR zombie posts until you run out of story.

WHERES THE REST??? Lol man Kathy just keep dropping off the face of the earth...Maybe that Miami Zombie attack made her bug out?

Or they were over- run and they are all zombie poop over half of Florida.

[xLikexAxBossx]

So, I just got caught up to the end, and I must say... MOAR? I started reading about a month ago and just got to the end, and this is one of the best written accounts of WWZ i've ever read. When I started reading I didn't realize that this story was started back in 08-09. I couldn't believe that the same followers have been here the whole time, begging endlessly for MOAR. Kathy, you're a literary genius and I LOVE your work. One more entry pretty please, I need to know what happened with sissy, and James, and Scott and every character I have grown to love. Heck, this story has reduced me to tears on more than one occasion, first with Brandon, then bubby, and then James. (I also cried at James's return, not going to lie.) much love mother hen <3

[shadows on the trees]

So, I just got caught up to the end, and I must say... MOAR? I started reading about a month ago and just got to the end, and this is one of the best written accounts of WWZ i've ever read. When I started reading I didn't realize that this story was started back in 08-09. I couldn't believe that the same followers have been here the whole time, begging endlessly for MOAR. Kathy, you're a literary genius and I LOVE your work. One more entry pretty please, I need to know what happened with sissy, and James, and Scott and every character I have grown to love. Heck, this story has reduced me to tears on more than one occasion, first with Brandon, then bubby, and then James. (I also cried at James's return, not going to lie.) much love mother hen <3

I have been trying to stay off this page so I don't see any spoilers... I'm totally obsessed with Mother Hen and the folks in Sanctuary, even though I'm four years late to the party. I hardly read any of the sites I used to go to because I spend all my online time here... Thank goodness summers are slow at my job.
Great work, Kathy, wherever you are!

[bonanacrom]

When the time is right she will return and finish the story, I mean, there's only like another 2 years of writing to finish right ?

[LowKey]

When the time is right she will return and finish the story, I mean, there's only like another 2 years of writing to finish right ?

We're patient.....we can wait for MOAR!

[CG]

Thanks for MOAR, Momma Hen.

I have everything copied into an .rtf file and am working on formatting it in Word Perfect so I can change it to .pdf and read it any time I want to on my iPad. This time, I'm going to try not to lose my original .rtf file so I can continue updating it.

*crosses fingers*

Oh, and MOAR?

[zombiepreparation]

I have everything copied into an .rtf file and am working on formatting it in Word Perfect so I can change it to .pdf and read it any time I want to on my iPad. This time, I'm going to try not to lose my original .rtf file so I can continue updating it.

*crosses fingers*

Oh, and MOAR?

I don't know what an .rtf file is (I'll google it after I post this) but I copied MJotZY in Word too for anytime reading, that took some time, and am now reading it into MP3 format for my MP3 player to listen to it like an audio book. Talk about taking some time but I do like listening to Sissy's story while I'm working. And one thing I caught while 'listening' to it this time brought up a question for which I didn't have an answer.

On Page 1, the very first post of the story titled 'Sissy's Journal', third paragraph after she writes 'Zombie' on a single line, Sissy writes:

The few facts that have been confirmed that are being given to the public is that whatever is causing this disease – and I still insist on thinking of it as a disease

which followed the full paragraph just above where Sissy writes:

No matter how much Scott and I have talked about it we still can’t figure out how this nightmare started. There are so many conflicting reports. Stories run the gamut from the disease being a bizarre mutation of a naturally occurring necrotizing bacterium to a biological terrorism event that got out of hand.

The question that came to me: Have we yet found out if this is a disease? I mean contamination only by fluids seemed to go by the wayside when everyone who died except those very very few who were immune reanimated no matter how they died and even if they had never been around a zombie. Did I miss the explanation in my reading? Has she told us if it is a bizarre mutation of a naturally occurring necrotizing bacterium? I feel relatively certain I didn't miss anything supporting the biological terrorism angle but I don't remember that I have ever read a later consensus on what NRS turns out to be.

Is it there and I missed it? If so can anyone tell me where to find it? Please PM so it isn't a spoiler for new readers. This is a seriously long and deliciously complicated meshing of people, places, events, etc which I absolutely luv about it, and like with The Lord of the Rings book(s) I'm needing a Mom's Journal of the Zombie Years companion book with the people, places, events, etc that I can keep referring to.

Oh yes, and Moar Please! Moar Moar Moar!

[shadows on the trees]

This story is so much MOAR awesome than The Walking Dead is.


I'm on page 125 and every once in a while somebody called Nick pops up and every time I'm like "who the f*ck is Nick?"


MOAR, please, MOAR!

[zombiepreparation]

This story is so much MOAR awesome than The Walking Dead is.

Since I don't afford cable I had to wait until the library got the DVDs to start watching but I had been waiting anxiously to see The Walking Dead. The pilot was just what I'd been hoping for, although by the time I could get the library DVDs I had already read MJofZY and as I continued watching the following episodes of TWD I seemed to be constantly comparing it to MJotZY. I was being unfair to the series but I just couldn't help myself. I'd been spoiled.

I'm on page 125 and every once in a while somebody called Nick pops up and every time I'm like "who the f*ck is Nick?"

Exactly! We can't be the only two can we? Deliciously complicated, deliciously multi-faceted, deliciously delicious. I seriously withdrew from everything but the story for about a week of near sleepless nights from continuous reading the first time I read it. What a page turner.

MOAR, please, MOAR!

I concur!!!!!

[shadows on the trees]

From page 130:

"Pre-NRS many Middle Easterners were painted with the same broad brushstrokes that were used to characterize terrorists regardless of whether they shared the same religion. There are Middle Easterners that have been Christian for generations and they resent the Muslims as much as the Muslims resent them. All that seemed to matter in all those examples were bad memories and broad prejudices."

How is that not a prejudiced remark? I was unaware that ALL Muslims are inherently bad. I think I'm done on that note. (And I'm a Christian. One of those Christians that remembers the "love one another" admonition. )

Also- there are no black people in this story? That just doesn't sit right with me.

[ZombieGranny]

Please do not quote spoilers from the story.
We get new readers all the time, and that is not fair to them.

Also- if you do not like the characters, I am certain you are welcome to write your own stories.

[duodecima]

Oh, I've got a lot of axes to grind with some of the stuff in the story. Ditto "Fel by the Wayside" which is on a different site.

But I still really enjoyed both stories.

[LowKey]

Also- there are no black people in this story? That just doesn't sit right with me.

1-There are. Re-read the story. You'll have to pay attention because Sissy doesn't seem to take much notice or care about such things.
2- Anytime you dislike some portion of someone else's creative writitng please feel free to write a story of your own that addresses whatever issue you feel has been neglected or maligned.

[zombiepreparation]

You'll have to pay attention because Sissy doesn't seem to take much notice or care about such things.

You know, I'd noticed that myself. Extra minimal attention to those kinds of details. Very few defining colors of any kind on the full specturm of pale to full color on anything physical, and the same minimal attention to spiritual belief motivators that can exhibit bias -from good to bad- in them, as well as bias for/against them by others and bias for/against others by them. I like this.

Plus extra major attention to personality/character/ability/personal challenges. I find myself aware of and greatly enjoying assessing the characters from these angles.

I am glad to be reminded to look again at pg. 130, Day 211 (Tuesday) – February 27 (part four). It is one of those dialogues that are particularly profound to me on so many levels, from human challenge to reaction in given situations, to parent and child processing of given situations. From the big picture of the whole of what is currently thought to be known, to the wisdom that what seems obvious may in fact not be so.

Pg. 130 is one of those pieces that will buoy me in my darker hours when I am worn down from fear that humanity has moved too far from the ideal I hold to be of value and reminds me that all may not be what seems apparent to me at the time, and move me to look closer at circumstances creating my fears/anger/frustration in an attempt to use what I'm feeling to create better personal understanding as well as using that to create action that will benefit my peace of mind, the situation, and ideally the dark hour I feel humanity is causing/facing/experiencing consequences of for everyone; those innocent in every way, those innocent in some ways, those uneducated to the causes and solutions, all the way to opposite end to those who are damaged and dangerous and possibly irredeemable.

I see pieces of myself in several characters like James and Scott, but others too, including a pinch of Sissy. I very much enjoy and desire the words and perceptions Sissy writes and voices. And the wisdom at the end of the post by Scott on the time needed to absorb and process well and to give more positive results.

These are things I want and feel I need to hear, to be reminded when I falter in the way I want to think. Words that re-boot my internal computer.

A very appealing and meaty and yummy bit of writing.

(ZombieGranny, I 'believe' I wrote this without sharing actual plot in any way.)

[ZombieGranny]

Very nicely done, thank you zombiepreparation.

[Cass_Stryffe]

Has anyone heard from Kathy recently? I haven't seen her post anything in months and I'm getting worried.

[ZombieGranny]

No need to worry; near the top of the previous page, you can see she posted a chapter in the Geek Shall Inherit the Earth story in May.

In real life, she is extremely busy.
I remember what that is like, you're lucky to get a shower to yourself.

Have a hunk of monkey bread and some coffee...
melon slice?

[Cass_Stryffe]

Yeah, I check The Geek Shall inherit the Earth every few days. I'm probably worrying over nothing. Thanks!