Today’s Sunday Read is courtesy of Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club and, most recently, Doomed, whose short story “Zombie” was published in Playboy.
The story starts at a school where an “evil genius” of a boy puts the theory of “de-evolution” into practice by attaching a defibrillator to his head and discharging it. This willful zombification catches on and soon all of the protagonist’s friends have done it: “They have smoking-hot bodies and the brains of infants. They have the best of both worlds.”
Read Palahniuk’s story:
It was Griffin Wilson who proposed the theory of de-evolution. He sat two rows behind me in Organic Chem, the very definition of an evil genius. He was the first to take the Great Leap Backward.
Everybody knows because Tricia Gedding was in the nurse’s office with him. She was in the other cot, behind a paper curtain, faking her period to get out of a pop quiz in Perspectives on Eastern Civ. She said she heard the loud beep! but didn’t think anything of it. When Tricia Gedding and the school nurse found him on his own cot, they thought Griffin Wilson was the resuscitation doll everybody uses to practice CPR. He was hardly breathing, barely moving a muscle. They thought it was a joke because his wallet was still clenched between his teeth and he still had the electrical wires pasted to either side of his forehead.
Book details
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
EAN: 9780393327342
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- Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk
EAN: 9780385533034
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