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    The Show Must Go On: A Christmas Tale of Zombies and Pantomime
    The Show Must Go On: A Christmas Tale of Zombies and Pantomime
    The Show Must Go On: A Christmas Tale of Zombies and Pantomime
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    The Show Must Go On: A Christmas Tale of Zombies and Pantomime

    By Juliet Boyd

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    The cast are about to go on stage to perform their Christmas pantomime when zombies invade their dressing room, but they don't give up. They are professionals and the show must go on.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJuliet Boyd
    Release dateDec 6, 2013
    ISBN9781311030481
    The Show Must Go On: A Christmas Tale of Zombies and Pantomime
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    Juliet Boyd

    Juliet lives in Somerset in the south-west of England. She used to work in administration, but now writes full-time. Her main writing interests are fantasy, science fiction, weird fiction, horror and flash fiction. Details of her work are available on her website.

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      The Show Must Go On - Juliet Boyd

      THE SHOW MUST GO ON

      A Christmas Tale of Zombies and Pantomime

      Juliet Boyd

      Smashwords Edition

      Discover Juliet Boyd at Smashwords.com

      Copyright Juliet Boyd 2013, all rights reserved.

      This book is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and events portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locations, is entirely coincidental.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      Thank you for downloading this free ebook. Although this is a free book, it remains the copyrighted property of the author, and may not be reproduced, copied and distributed for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you enjoyed this book, please encourage your friends to download their own copy at Smashwords.com, where they can also discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support.

      A previous version of this story appeared in:

      The Undead That Saved Christmas, Volume 3: Monster Bash, published by Rainstorm Press

      CONTENTS

      The Show Must Go On

      About the Author

      Rag & Bones: Trapped (Sample)

      Glamoured (Sample)

      Rifter (Sample)

      THE SHOW MUST GO ON

      A Christmas Tale of Zombies and Pantomime

      (Note: All zombie conversations in hitherto indecipherable dialect have been translated for your convenience.)

      It was two o’ clock on a Saturday afternoon when it happened, half an hour before the matinee performance of Cinderella was due to start. That was when the horde of zombies bashed down the door. This entrance was overly dramatic seeing as the door wasn’t actually locked and they could have just turned the handle like any sensible person, but hordes of zombies aren’t generally known for being sensible and they do like to make a statement.

      The zombies, as you would expect, thrashed and chomped their way through the pathetic, screaming cast of the Downtown Community Theatre Company’s Cinderella, all of whom had been preparing for their performance in their communal dressing room. Luckily for the zombies, there were no heroes or he-men in this cast to put up any kind of battle.

      And then the zombies left. Off to find another production to disrupt, no doubt.

      Only minutes before, the cast had been having animated conversations about which of their friends were coming to the performance and whether or not they were going to remember their lines. Now all they could manage was the odd grunt and an involuntary jolt of the limbs that remained attached to their bodies.

      Cinderella was the first to stir. She pushed herself up to a sitting position and looked around the dressing room, her head lolling from side to side on account of

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