J Luukkonen: Writer
Novel: I am zombie
“He had called me a monster, and I was. I was a zombie.”
The journey of Adam Newman begins suddenly on a Saturday morning. Adam wakes up disoriented and angry. He begins to wander into the nearby town, and discovers the aftermath of a zombie invasion. As a fever takes him over and he attacks and kills a stranger, he realizes the awful truth: he is a zombie. As he keeps attacking more humans, he understands that he is a paradox: he both loves the fever and feel of ripping apart human flesh, and at the same time the thought of it — and his very existence — horrifies and repulses him.
He attempts to reconcile the paradox as he meets his former girlfriend Felicity. She looks like an amazing meal to Adam. He tries to turn her zombie until a surprising interaction repulses him from her. Felicity is the most solid connection to Adam’s past, and the two are tied together by more than their former relationship.
Adam also befriends a powerful zombie Harmon, who seems to pay special attention to Adam. With his domineering figure, preacher hat, and ivory cane, Harmon preaches of a golden utopia for zombies, one with full rights and respect alongside the humans. But Harmon has secrets.
Adam soon discovers Harmon is involved in most things in town to do with zombies, including an experimental research facility called The Hive. Inside, Harmon is forming a zombie army under the auspices of a Government experiment to end the zombie plague. The Hive uses zombie hive-mind to control the thoughts of those trapped inside. The only way out is to let them liberate themselves by exposing them to the most devilish thought of all: freedom.
Despite Adam’s need to escape the Hive himself, he also feels a need to free those others that are caught inside. In doing so, he crosses Harmon, and risks both his own life and that of Felicity’s. He must decide what path his existence will take. He must create himself in a new way, and embrace the freedom that he is given by becoming his full, true self: by becoming fully zombie. Only then can Adam come to grips with who and what he truly is.
The journey of Adam Newman begins suddenly on a Saturday morning. Adam wakes up disoriented and angry. He begins to wander into the nearby town, and discovers the aftermath of a zombie invasion. As a fever takes him over and he attacks and kills a stranger, he realizes the awful truth: he is a zombie. As he keeps attacking more humans, he understands that he is a paradox: he both loves the fever and feel of ripping apart human flesh, and at the same time the thought of it — and his very existence — horrifies and repulses him.
He attempts to reconcile the paradox as he meets his former girlfriend Felicity. She looks like an amazing meal to Adam. He tries to turn her zombie until a surprising interaction repulses him from her. Felicity is the most solid connection to Adam’s past, and the two are tied together by more than their former relationship.
Adam also befriends a powerful zombie Harmon, who seems to pay special attention to Adam. With his domineering figure, preacher hat, and ivory cane, Harmon preaches of a golden utopia for zombies, one with full rights and respect alongside the humans. But Harmon has secrets.
Adam soon discovers Harmon is involved in most things in town to do with zombies, including an experimental research facility called The Hive. Inside, Harmon is forming a zombie army under the auspices of a Government experiment to end the zombie plague. The Hive uses zombie hive-mind to control the thoughts of those trapped inside. The only way out is to let them liberate themselves by exposing them to the most devilish thought of all: freedom.
Despite Adam’s need to escape the Hive himself, he also feels a need to free those others that are caught inside. In doing so, he crosses Harmon, and risks both his own life and that of Felicity’s. He must decide what path his existence will take. He must create himself in a new way, and embrace the freedom that he is given by becoming his full, true self: by becoming fully zombie. Only then can Adam come to grips with who and what he truly is.