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Jack and Jill

Jonathan Maberry

First published July 2012
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette
Series Night Universe › Rot & Ruin .25

Synopsis

Jack is dying. But the zombie outbreak doesn't care... and his twin sister Jill has been bitten.

Notes

Novelette about a family's encounter with the initial outbreak on First Night.

On Jonathan Maberry's webpage, this story is attributed as a DEAD OF NIGHT story, but it was included in the Rot & Ruin collection Bits & Pieces... which indicates that the DEAD OF NIGHT stories and the ROT & RUIN novels/stories are one series -- Flower is the police dispatcher in Dead of Night for the Stebbins County Sheriff's office. Magic Marti at WNOW Radio keeps us "up to date" on the weather throughout that novel and this story. Approximately 13k words.

Publications (14)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
July 2012 Cover 21st Century Dead: A Zombie Anthology St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 237
July 2012 Cover 21st Century Dead: A Zombie Anthology St. Martin's Griffin Anthology
May 2013 Cover 21st Century Dead Piatkus Anthology 273
September 2014 Cover Zombies: More Recent Dead Prime Books Anthology 227
September 2015 Cover Bits & Pieces Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Collection 41
September 2015 Cover Bits & Pieces Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Collection 41
September 2015 Cover The Complete Rot & Ruin Collection Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Omnibus 41
April 2018 Cover Bits & Pieces Recorded Books Collection |2
August 2021 Cover Empty Graves: Tales of the Living Dead WordFire Press Collection 210
August 2021 Cover Empty Graves: Tales of the Living Dead WordFire Press Collection 210
September 2021 Cover Empty Graves: Tales of the Living Dead WordFire Press Collection 210
September 2021 Cover Empty Graves: Tales of the Living Dead WordFire Press Collection |11
March 2023 Cover Empty Graves: Tales of the Living Dead CAEZIK SF & Fantasy Collection |11
September 2024 Cover Empty Graves: Tales of the Living Dead CAEZIK SF & Fantasy Collection |11