Deadies: Run for Your Life (10 page)
“
Oh my god, Joan,” Doctor Mark cried out. The doctor listened for a moment. “Where’s Brandon?”
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Who is Joan?” Malik was bold enough to ask.
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She’s my dad’s ex-wife.” Kait answered.
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Joan just keep all the doors locked. Do you have any weapons?” The doctor asked into his cell. The doctor looked up at Kait. “Kait, Brandon is alive.”
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Who the hell is Brandon?” Malik tactlessly blurted out.
Tears welled in young Kait’s eyes. “My brother.”
Authors Note
As a teen I was mesmerized by fashion magazines. I admired the fashion models in the pages and actually knew all their names. They were my paper dolls. I never wanted to be a model. I was 5’6” and a behind the camera type of girl. As a youth I always love to write. I knew I would write as a profession or as a hobby. I digress. There was something alluring about fashion models. Models are being paid the big bucks to be made and dressed up. The concept for this book came from a very simple question I asked myself while thumbing through the pages of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. What would a supermodel do in a zombie apocalypse? Modeling doesn’t really give you any survival skills that I can think of. So I figured I would surround the model with everyday people, she would probably never come into contact with otherwise and just see where the story takes me. That’s how the character Franjessca Bordeaux (Jesse) materialized. The character Nick came from the fact that I always have car trouble and how nice it would have been to have a boyfriend that was a mechanic. The zombie story has been done time and time again. I felt I could put a different spin on things. As far I know there has never been a swimsuit, lingerie model thrust into a zombie apocalypse. In the world of make believe anything is possible.
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About the author:
Krystell Lake is a writer of novels, screenplays and teleplays. She lives near Chicago with her son and daughter. Deadies: Run For Your Life is the first novel in the Deadies series. She is currently writing the second book in the series, Deadies: In Search of Blood, due out June 2012.
Other works by this Author:
Birth: A First Blood Novel
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