Suddenly there came a tapping at my chamber door. I shivered, knowing it’s Lenore knocking in the hall, wanting inside my door. She’s come in form of raven and ghost before, but her footsteps patting are heavy, plodding on the hallway floor.
Dare I open it? No – I can hear her moaning, pleading for entry, but as I sit profusely sweating, I fear the integrity of my door.
Now her arms are heavily banging, splint’ring down my chamber door. “BRAINS!” she cries, consumption eating at her zombie form. I scream, but no use waiting – she’s in, and I’m nevermore.
The prompt for the March 12th Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Challenge was tapping, and like a good, “well-read*” American, I instantly thought of Poe’s “The Raven”.
*I’m really not well-read, not at all well-read considering that I’m trying to be a writer, so this is in quotes because I’m being sarcastic.
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Zombie tap-tap-tapping in Poe style, love it!
Glad you liked it!
Love it!
Thank you! It’s been a while since I’ve visited the ranch. 😉
No time like the present! 😉
This is great H.
Thank you! I try my best.
May I suggest you google Omnia’s version of The Raven.
That is brilliant! Hahahaha… I’m laughing with amusement at your twist of The Raven. Nevermore! 😀
Haha, glad you enjoyed it!
That was well done. I love the poem The Raven, and this was an amusing homage to it.
Haha, I’m glad you liked it! The Raven is always one of the better things kids read in high school, in my opinion.
This is AWESOME, oh my gosh. You really captured the spirit of Poe’s The Raven (which is one of my favorite poems) so even before I read your afterword, I knew this was referencing it, but you also absolutely put your own twist on the poem. I love the addition of a zombie lol! Well done, H.R.R.
Yay! I’m so glad you got it before the afterword. I thought it was pretty obvious once I shoved “Lenore” in there, but still! Love it.
Ha! Well done! I wasn’t sure if it would end with zombie or if it was a tale of violating self isolation protocol.
Ooh, that would have been a good way to take it, too! Very creative.
Nice zombie update to Edgar Allen Poe. He’d approve!
I think he would! I honestly believe consumption was one of the main inspirations for zombiism, and Lenore always seemed kind of undead in many of his works.
I have always loved sarcasm.
I like where you went… hopefully though it is just your character who is ‘nevermore’.
Haha, I hope so! I’m young enough that coronavirus shouldn’t take me (but lack of toilet paper might!).
Have a Sears Roebuck catalog around… I’ve heard that many an out house used that (um) selected document… 😉