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Friday Flash – A Hero Comes Along
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Who is Icy Sedgwick?
Icy is a folklore blogger and host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast. She is based in the north east of England, where she was born and raised amid the folk tales and legends of Tyneside and Northumberland. Icy is fascinated by history, cinema, art, and the occult, and griffins will always be her favourite mythical beast. She also writes dark fantasy novellas, Gothic short stories and the occasional weird Western, and she holds a PhD in Film Studies!
LOVE THIS SO MUCH I WANT TO HAVE YOUR WORD BABIES!!!!
Fantastic. This is insightful, sharp, insanely brilliant. Well-f’n-done.
Very cool. Interesting idea that eating the brain provides images and memories of the victim.
Ooo very creepy. The main Character sort of repels me and yet I like him too. Cool idea to eat the memories of one attacker to find the other.
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Yup – really good. The tone was perfect. My favourite images were the angry scratches and the rotting vocal chords.
This is a great smile for a Friday morning. Thanks Icy. I love this guy (& this story.) 🙂
BRRAAAAAAAAIIIIIINNSSSSSSS!
What a wikkid story. Love the twist on the superhero story. Fabulous. Cool idea that a zombie sees the memory of the person through eating the brains.
Adam B @revhappiness
Niiice. First Person rocks this one. Thanks.
This needs to be posted all over the galaxy. Bravo.
Wow! Well done. Is there more to this character’s story/world I can get caught up on? This flash has left me seriously wanting more!
This is wonderful! I really enjoyed reading it! It’s creepy and yet you can’t help liking the zombie “hero,” depsite his brain fetish. 🙂
GREAT story! Words cannot express how much I love this!
Zombie Avenger, best friend or nemesis of the Toxic Avenger? Either way the ghostly crimefighter with “dead weight” behind its fists is very amusing for me. Maybe “Dead Weight” could be the name of a sidekick?
Okay this is made of epic awesomeness! God, can this be a series? LOVE IT!
I think “I chew on the amygdala” is the best line I’ve read in weeks. Excellent!!
This is just SOO far beyond good to make it impossible for me to praise it enough. I really REALLY enjoyed this!! Kudos to a Queen of Flash Fiction. This is just SOO far beyond good to make it impossible for me to praise it enough. I really REALLY enjoyed this!! Kudos to a Queen of Flash Fiction.
Terrific, you can’t go wrong with superheroes and zombies!
Nice. Great language. Great pacing. I dig the zombie superhero idea. And the whole eating a part of the brain and being able to see what the attacker saw throughout his day is pretty genius.
Zombie superheroes? What’s next Zombie heartthrobs? I do believe you could pull it off!
Great flash! Unique story idea, interesting character and I love the bit about eating the brain giving him access to the victims memories.
Stacey
Cool superhero! Really like this idea, espically the brain eating idea. lol
OOOH YEEEAH!!! A zombie in a superman outfit. Be afraid crims, be VERY afraid. 🙂
The most innovative zombie story ever. Brilliant work.
“but my vocal chords rotted a week ago.”
Love that line, also love it when jerks get it. Hope he finds the taller man as well.
Your best story yet and by far the best zombie story I have EVER read.
Sub this to Weird Tales or something like that because everybody needs to read this.
So full of awesome. I can’t put together the words. Amazing.
And the voice slays this one, er, sorry–the lack of voice? This is so right on so many levels–from the dirty cape to the whole marvel comics last paragraph. YOu’re twisted, but in such a good way.
And I just saw ‘Captain America the First Avenger’ …LoL Your story reminds me of Marvel’s Zombies saga they had going years ago. Very well done!
OMG, this is so cool!! A series, I presume? *please say yes*
Fantastic Icy! love it. ZOmbies isn’t normally my bag, but this has possibly converted me, its so cleverly done
Super awesome! =)
My knid of superhero indeed.My knid of superhero indeed.
Pure, Grade A awesomness! Nice explanation of why zombies move and ‘speak’ like they do.
When is the next episode??
*grabs popcorns and waits*
Leave it to you to create a zombie super hero. Unexpected and awesome!
Fantastic. What I love about this flash is the twists on the premise you added. The opening seems to mix the idea of ghosts with zombies, which was a nice touch. However, I loved the reason why she eats the zombie at the end.
Aidan – I don’t follow…why WHO eats the zombie at the end? No one eats the zombie.
“I have somewhere else to visit tonight.”
That would probably be Apartment 4B. For dessert.
Exceptional! Wonderful! Awesome! (ok, got to limit myself to three superlatives.) You need to find a good artist and turn this into a graphic novel!
I shall just go for one superlative – awesome 🙂 x
lol – I cracked up at the Zombie Avenger – wonderful
Hi there Icy — I loved his being buried in his Superman stuff, lumbering into ‘attack position’ and the rather chilling ‘brain reading’. While I sometimes wonder how the ‘sneakers of good’ cannot outrun the ‘shambling of evil’, in this case I can see how this dude might not be stopped. Great reading something from the Z-perspective. Writing with brrrraaaains…
St.