Review by Mythical Books

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REVIEW:

Can Zombies be used as part of an allegory?

How appropriate and easily digestible would be

 such an apologue for the readers who usually

fall into two distinct categories: those who read stories

about zombies and those that are looking only for,

let’s say, the message... Amy Blackwelder had the

courage of such approach of the zombie phenomenon

 and, in my opinion, Zombie Housewives should

please both categories. The writer succeeded an

 excellent balance: there is enough gore, enough

suspense and enough “zombie character” for the

 first category and for the second one there is a

disguised social analysis and a disguised message

for those that are "trapped" in an unhappy marriage.

History and happiness (more correctly lack thereof)

of three neighboring couples, each with its own

different problems are not the cause that generated

 the plague - because this cause is one terrifying

by how absurdly banal it is, but the mandatory

and contributory factor that triggers the "disease".

Frustration, the feeling of incompleteness and finally

 ... the misery of married life may make us monsters

 and this time, to sound the alarm, the transformation

takes place literally.

Another author’s success is the way in which the minds of

 Crystal, Jennifer and Carrie apprehend and how they think.

The passing from one state to another occurs in limits

that are… logical, normal, possible, the eventual

exaggeration being used on purpose having the role of

emphasizing an idea or another.

I also liked the fact that Zombie Hosewives meets the

criteria required to be a truly short story, featuring a

small cast of named characters, and being focused on

a self-contained incident with the intent of evoking a single effect.

I could even say that it is a good anecdote. Anecdote

that is defined as "„a short and amusing but serious 

account, which may depict a real/fake incident or character”

even if in our case the funny part is not in the frontline,

but only in the substrate, in the absurd of the story.

I liked it, try it!