“Creating characters is easy. It’s getting them to behave that’s the problem.”
— Steven Ramirez
“It’s amazing how fast you can write when there’s a gun to your head.”
— Steven Ramirez
“To write is to stand at the edge of a bottomless well, unafraid of falling in.”
— Steven Ramirez
“So here I am writing my zombie story and my lead character decides to betray me.”
— Steven Ramirez
“I knew then I was going to die in the street without ever seeing Holly again. All because I tried to help an old woman, proving for all eternity that no good deed goes unpunished.”
— Steven Ramirez
“During our time together in this place Holly didn’t outright avoid me or treat me rudely. But she wasn’t—how do women like to put it? She wasn’t emotionally available to me.”
— Steven Ramirez
“Her voice was small and distant, like she’d already left the room.”
— Steven Ramirez
“His eyes were like two wafers of slate, grey and lifeless.”
— Steven Ramirez
“A riverless silence made the air heavy.”
— Steven Ramirez
“Drive. He’s already dead.”
— Steven Ramirez
“But I was still determined to protect her. It might be the one good thing I would ever do in my life. I wondered if God would even notice.”
— Steven Ramirez
“Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink.”
— Steven Ramirez
“Can’t you see what they are?’ I said. ‘They’re all dead.’”
— Steven Ramirez
“I don’t know how these things died without benefit of a bullet to the brain pan. They seemed to exist in an eternal twilight of longing.”
— Steven Ramirez
“I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality.”
— Steven Ramirez
“For an instant I saw before me the young girl this used to be.”
— Steven Ramirez
“Eighth one this week,’ he said.”
— Steven Ramirez
“Sal turned, an eye stalk hanging from his teeth.”
— Steven Ramirez
“When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me.”
— Steven Ramirez
“It’s not about winning, it’s about doing what’s right. And yes, we will do what’s right.”
— Steven Ramirez
“I’m not a bad person.”
— Steven Ramirez
“I was a spectator who had gotten free admission to a freak show.”
— Steven Ramirez
“I felt a lunatic’s laugh welling up inside me.”
— Steven Ramirez
“Did you ever think it won’t be the undead who kill us, but ordinary people?”
— Steven Ramirez
“The sound of him drinking was indescribable—like dirty runoff down a storm drain.”
— Steven Ramirez
“Smiling, he handed Landry the bloody aluminum bat Warnick had used. ‘Time to die, old man,’ he said.”
— Steven Ramirez
“This guy was a humorless bag of nothing but.”
— Steven Ramirez
“She gave herself a hard twist and fell into a sitting position, staring at me with those maggot-filled doll’s eyes.”
— Steven Ramirez
“If you’d saved the girl, you’d be a hero. Next time.”
— Steven Ramirez
“I wanted to see the bullet coming, wanted to know the exact moment of my death.”
— Steven Ramirez