It's 2037. I'm Mike Williams, but you can call me 'Magnet'. Everyone else does. It's short for 'Chick Magnet', which is good old-fashioned military humour at its finest. At age fifteen, my face picked a fight with the propeller of my family's boat, on a shoal near Broome, off Western Australia. It was an accident, but, needless to say, the propeller won. Twelve years later, I was a not-so-ruggedly-handsome fighter pilot assigned to the TFR Sydney. Not the Captain, or flight leader, or anything similarly exciting. Nobody special, just one mostly-unmemorable pilot among the many nameless,...

"Canada will NEVER be a safe haven for zombies. EVER." - John Baird, Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, 2013 There are so many things worse than death. Let's explore some, shall we? As inevitable as birth, death is just another part of life. No more malicious than the sunset at the end of a day. It isn't some evil bogeyman that preys upon innocent mortals who would otherwise live forever. All good things must come to an end. But what if they don't? What is life continued as a rotten parody of its previous existence, left to jerk and move, their mind a driver unable to drive stick? Dive...