Hi there
I've never fancied zombies. And that's slightly unusual because, nowadays, there are many people who really do fancy them. Some of this new crop of zombies from tv, movies, and books, are written as truly likeable. Take the movie "Warm Bodies" as a for-instance; this one stars Nicholas Hoult as a young zombie in love with a human. It's billed as a Romeo and Juliet story.
But ... in love? A zombie? Zombies are supposed to be brain-dead, lumbering, idiotic creatures who eat brains. I'd run a mile from a zombie, which wouldn't be too hard, what with them doing all that lumbering.
Recently I read a book, "How to Ruin Your Ex's Wedding" by Denise Wells. The high point is at the beginning with the row that causes a marriage break-up.
The couple - Tabitha and Pax - are watching a movie on the telly. She hides her eyes because she thinks that the lovers, Mary and Bill, might be killed by a marauding horde of zombies.
Uh-oh... Bill is, indeed, killed. Tabitha thinks Bill did the right thing, throwing himself in front of Mary, thereby making the supreme sacrifice, and allowing Mary time to get away whilst the zombies are chewing down on him.
Pax disagrees. Mary was a dead weight, he says. It should have been she who died. Mary couldn't run fast enough, was always complaining and crying. She didn't know how to shoot, she lost their food ....
Tabitha is horrified. She says Bill's action was the ultimate proof of love for his partner. Wouldn't Pax throw down his life for hers if there was a zombie apocalypse?
Pax snorts.... He wouldn't.
And so ... after the most hilarious, action-packed, dingdong of a row ever written, Tabitha and Pax are divorced....
But.... I wonder. Would you, my dear reader, sacrifice yourself for your partner if a horde of zombies was at hand? Or would you briskly speed-walk off in the opposite direction, leaving your loved one to their fate?
Um....
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