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Love and hope for a new world cleansed of all the old crap - but first you have to get through that horde of flesh-eating zombies.

We're invited people to run for their lives or to read at FLESH. Application to the novel does not guarentee admission. Please give plenty of details in your applications and review our guidelines before applying. This is not a novel of the supernatural or undead.

Chapter One: DAY ONE TO DAY FIVE
Chapter Two: DAY SIX TO NINE
Chapter Three: DAY TEN TO PRESENT
New to the novel or a new character? Start here: The Infection : Part One

We start off our gruesome flesh-rending tale in our every day modern world. The disease appears and then spreads. Where did it come from? How come it's moving so fast? Why can't they stop it?

Background: Taking off on a spate of good new zombie movies like 28 Days Later, Dawn of the Dead, and Shaun of the Dead, we're playing for realism as well as horror and a few laughs along the way. The zombies are not strictly undead but suffering from a deadly virus that makes the infected virtually unstoppable until their brains are destroyed or they're totally dismembered. They no longer are human in that they have no emotions but rage and an all consuming hunger for living flesh (in our case for any living flesh so watch out little doggie!) and they don't stop until their biological bodies are so messed up that it's impossible for them to crawl one more inch. The disease has infected their metabolism to make them stronger, faster, and they still retain some animal cunning. They're not shambling slowly but reacting fast, and for some reason (perhaps because in some ways the disease mimics death and lowers body temperature) our zombies don't go for each other but the more hot-blooded.

The original virus was invented by the military to create super soldiers and was tested on a cadre of elite Marines - but it mutated quickly and got out of hand and the Marines escaped confinement infecting too many people before the Army even knew what it was dealing with. Once in the general population the disease spreads almost instanteously thanks, in part, to the Government trying to keep it a secret. There is no known vaccine or cure at this time. It passes through body fluids such as saliva from a bite, blood, tears, urine, etc. Thankfully zombies seldom bother with toilets.

Join us as one of the uninfected.

Rules of Engagement:

Writers that go absent without leave WILL BE EATEN. (3 months)

If you decide to leave the novel let us know so YOU CAN BE EATEN. (Instanteous)

If you need to be inactive for any length of time due to real life concerns please let a Member of the Board know and we'll suspend you for a while and you won't be eaten. Unless you never come back. Then YOU WILL BE EATEN. (3 months after estimated time of return)

We (The MOBs) just love it when people get eaten around here.

Please consider playing a very ordinary person. The fun will be in ordinary people surviving against horrific odds. If you want to make changes to zombie biology or have interesting plot ideas or backstory ideas please contact a MOB to discuss it.