To Kill a Zombie: The Year I Came Back to Life - and Why
by Pierce, David W.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-01-15
Publisher(s): Abilene Christian Univ Pr
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Summary
Most zombies aren't aware that they are zombies. David Pierce heard it first from his wife: "You just seem dead," she told him. "Checked out, lifeless a zombie." David took this as a challenge. He had to kill the zombie and come back to lifeùhe had to connect with people and his faith in ways he had never done before.
Author Biography
David W. Pierce was born in Nashville, Tennessee and has lived in Tennessee his whole life. He has an MA in English from Middle Tennessee State University, where he has also been an adjunct English professor since 1998. He has also taught at Western Kentucky University and Taylor University in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he taught a course in mystery writing. He is the author of Don't Let Me Go: What My Daughter Taught Me about the Journey Every Parent Must Make and other books.
Table of Contents
| Warning: Zombies Are Everywhere! | p. 11 |
| The Zombie Quiz | p. 12 |
| Prologue | p. 13 |
| The Zombie First Appears | p. 13 |
| The Zombie Is in My House! | p. 16 |
| Close Encounter of a Stardust Kind | p. 21 |
| Not) A Way With Words | p. 31 |
| Life (and Its Evidence) Always Flows Downhill | p. 41 |
| The Life Raft(s) | p. 47 |
| Those Silly Little Games | p. 55 |
| Something a Little Less Dangerous, Please | p. 61 |
| Me, My Buddies, and Death Take a Trip | p. 69 |
| Some Very "Live"-ly Crowds | p. 81 |
| Tower of Terror and Other Near-death Experiences | p. 89 |
| What Really Killed King Kong | p. 99 |
| One Man's Garbage Is Another Man's Lesson Plan | p. 113 |
| "Happy Brthday to ô | p. 129 |
| Nothing Like a Good Funeral | p. 139 |
| The Lost Boy | p. 147 |
| Zombies Can't Swim | p. 155 |
| A Typewriter and the Japanese Golfers | p. 165 |
| Swimming with Sharks | p. 183 |
| Zombies Don't Hike | p. 201 |
| Epilogue | p. 215 |
| Death of the Zombie | p. 215 |
| Afterword | p. 223 |
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