Writer’s Soundtracks is an experiment at the boundary between fiction and music. This is a new series and collaboration between Chaka Benson and the writing team at Frankford Publishing. This project explores the possibilities when these two abstract approaches recombine. Think of this as a music soundtrack with the fiction to go along with it. […]
“…the sheer numbers involved in an undead outbreak mean you’re essentially doomed in a zombie situation.”
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A Participant’s Reflection on the Collapse of Meaning We are not merely watching the rise of the zombie in culture—we are dreaming it, breathing it, becoming it. The zombie is not just a figure of horror; it is a mirror held to our collective soul. And in its vacant gaze, we see a society that has lost
Zombie movies are as popular and ubiquitous as they are because we live in a zombie world. And what do we love more than taking selfies? You know we live in a zombie world. Most of us feel out of touch with the people around us. We’re taught not to think for ourselves, but to
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The first Zombie I met was a rerun of “The Night Stalker,” which debuted in 1974. By then, as a regular American kid, I already knew Count Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, the Mummy, and had a favorite, the Wolfman. Who knew then that Abbott and Costello had set the bar for what it meant to be
Frankford Publishing founding member Bent Noise performs live with his Noisy Alien Communicator at the Rotunda on University of Pennsylvania campus.
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