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Guest - Karri Thompson
Good morning! We have author Karri Thompson visiting us today. She's got a terrific post about one of our cultural icons - zombies! So grab a GF Vampire Eyeball Cookie, a cup of hot blood coffee and a chair. Karri has a contest so make sure you enter it (directions below). Enjoy!
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We’re All Infected
By
Karri Thompson
As a
high-school English teacher, it is not uncommon for me to hear the latest scoop
on campus from my students while I circulate the classroom, helping them with
their assignments. I tend to ignore the superficial stuff – the hottest boy or
girl on campus, the fight that happened at lunch, why someone has been
suspended, etc. – but recently when I kept hearing one particular topic over
and over again, I couldn’t help but listen and eventually question them about
it.
What were
my students talking about? The Walking
Dead – one of AMC’s top series with an average of 10.4 million viewers per
episode during its fourth season.
Zombies? Nope, it wasn’t my thing at the time,
but being a Netflix subscriber, I gave it a shot, and to my surprise, I wasn’t
disappointed. My husband even joined my “Walking Dead” marathon, and he was the
last person I thought would ever become hooked on a show featuring the undead.
But The Walking Dead is more than just a
show about zombies. Its cast of likeable and many hot characters (Darrell and
Rick), reminds us that every person is vulnerable, and that at any given moment,
we might need to rely on one of our instincts, a special, biological trigger
that helps us decide whether to face a danger and fight or turn away and flee
from possible injury or death.
Our
brains are uniquely hard-wired to keep us alive. This fight-or-flight response
is just one part of our human nature, and it just so happens to be the innate
response viewers witness most often in each episode of The Walking Dead.
True
– a zombie apocalypse will never happen, but people still hold the inborn fear
that if they end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, they might experience
something similar, whether it’s a terrorist attack, natural disaster, nuclear
war, or world-wide pandemic. The popularity of the National Geographic Channel’s
reality show, Doomsday Preppers, only
reinforces the fact that many Americans are currently preparing for the worst,
a time when the phrase “survival of the fittest” might become a reality.
Recent political
and catastrophic events around the world, such as the hostilities in the Middle
East, cases of Ebola in the United States, and this decade’s recent string of
international disasters, such as the Tsunamis that hit Thailand and Japan, only
add to this sudden rise in preparatory behavior and the fear of Armageddon.
Dystopian
novels like Brave New World, The Hunger Games, Divergent, and even my own novel, Mirror X, give the reader insight into a conceived post-apocalyptic
world, worlds containing the many psychological and physiological survival
methods used by each book’s characters. The continued popularity of this genre
again reinforces the fact that as humans, we never forget that we are
vulnerable and mortal.
“We’re all
infected” with the same strong, intrinsic will to subsist no matter what the
cost, making stories as unimaginable as a zombie apocalypse or a world where
babies are harvested in containers, something millions of people love to watch
and read about.
Halloween
is just around the corner, and although my agent told me the publishing market
is saturated with “zombie” manuscripts, I might still write one. With season
five of The Walking Dead beginning on
October 12, and with a record-breaking estimate of over 20 million viewers, I
think the zombie trend is far from ending, and I definitely know why.
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MIRROR X/Karri Thompson
I was born more than a
thousand years ago.
Put into a cryogenic tube at age seventeen, forgotten during a holocaust that decimated the world, I've finally been awakened to a more serene and peaceful future.
But things at the hospital are new and strange. And it’s starting to scare me.
Everyone is young. Everyone is banded and tracked. And everyone is keeping secrets.
Put into a cryogenic tube at age seventeen, forgotten during a holocaust that decimated the world, I've finally been awakened to a more serene and peaceful future.
But things at the hospital are new and strange. And it’s starting to scare me.
Everyone is young. Everyone is banded and tracked. And everyone is keeping secrets.
The
cute geneticist Michael Bennett might be the only good thing in this crazy new
world where “life is precious” but no one seems free to live it. The problem
is, I don’t think he’s being totally honest with me, either.
When I’m told only I can save the human race from extinction, it’s clear my freeze didn’t avoid a dreadful fate. It only delayed the horror…
When I’m told only I can save the human race from extinction, it’s clear my freeze didn’t avoid a dreadful fate. It only delayed the horror…
MIRROR
X/Excerpt
I
was filled with too much turmoil and betrayal to even raise my voice. “You
should have told me from the very beginning, Michael. All that talk about
training and career opportunities was a big lie.”
He bent forward, his eyes aimed at
the gray floor as I watched his back rise with each breath.
“I’m sorry, Cassie. Until you were
told about the project, we had to keep you from asking questions we weren’t
ready to answer. They were going to wait another week, but I couldn’t lie to
you one more minute.”
I folded my arms against my chest
and sighed. “I’m being forced into doing something I don’t want to do, and I’ve
been manipulated and deceived by people I thought I could trust.”
“We
needed to wait until you were stronger. You were too vulnerable.”
“And
I’m not vulnerable now? Look at me.” I said, raising my frail arms and letting
them drop limply to the bed.
“We’re
all vulnerable. We’re desperate. And we’re running out of time.”
About Karri Thompson
Growing up in San Diego, California, Karri Thompson spent much
of her years at the beach, reading novels, tanning, and listening to music. At
SDSU, she earned a BA in English, MA in education, and her teaching credential.
As a wife, mother, and high-school English teacher, she began writing novels,
giving all of the compelling plots and
unique characters in her head a home. Victorian literature rocks her
socks, and when she’s not writing, jogging, going to concerts, or watching her
son play football, she’s reading Dickens.
website:
www.karrithompson.com
Instagram:
authorkarrithompson
Twitter:
@karrithompson
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