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    Dead Short
    Dead Short
    DavidHailwood
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    • Reads
      Reads 162
      162162
    • Votes
      Votes 8
      88
    • Parts
      Parts 11
      1111
    • Time
      Time 1h 10m
      1 hours, 10 minutes1h 10m
    DavidHailwood
    Complete
    Complete, First published Apr 27, 2018
    Death! Zombies! Cannibalism! Grapefruits!  This collection of darkly humorous short stories and narrative poems, from the co-writer of iBooks best selling book of lies and misinformation 'Not A Lot Of People Know That', has a little something for everyone (unless you happen to be a perfectly sane and well balanced individual).
        
        In 'Death After Life', a lowly supermarket shelf stacker chokes to death on a peanut during a zombie outbreak, and is rather disappointed to learn he still has to go in to work the next day.
        
        In 'Blue Murder', a shipwrecked Englishman learns there's only one thing worse than being stranded alone in the middle of the ocean, and that's being stranded in the middle of the ocean with a ravenous American.
        
        In the deeply romantic love ballad 'Butt Ugly' a man attempts to come to terms with the fact that his girlfriend's not quite the looker she used to be, since she lost her face in an office shredder.
        
        All this, and more!
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    • comedy
    • death
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    • satan
    • scifi
    • shipwrecked
    • shortstory
    • wattys2018
    • zombies
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    Table of contentsLast updated Jun 04, 2018
    • Death After Life (Part One)
    • Death After Life (Part Two)
    • Johnny No Mouth
    • Head Case
    • A Matter Of Time
    • Better Off Dead
    • The Ballad Of Backwards Billy
    • Blue Murder
    • The Devil In The Dole Queue
    • Welcome To The Real World
    • Butt Ugly (a romantic love ballad)

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    • Death After Life (Part One)
    • Death After Life (Part Two)
    • Johnny No Mouth
    • Head Case
    • A Matter Of Time
    • Better Off Dead
    • The Ballad Of Backwards Billy
    • Blue Murder
    • The Devil In The Dole Queue
    • Welcome To The Real World
    • Butt Ugly (a romantic love ballad)
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