Mac spent Saturday morning and part of the afternoon finalizing the contracts for his writer of zombie teen novels as well as for Lenny Volkes who also wrote rather successfully about the subject in his earlier book, The Zombie Códice. Finished by two, Mac went to fetch Afton who had closed up shop at noon. As she told Mac, she opened the store just in case of a sale; although, she had only two customers-browsers really-on this slow Saturday after Christmas.
By four o'clock, Mac and Afton arrived at Upton Reserve where they proceeded to ice skate on the frozen pond. When the sun went down, the little lights that surrounded the skating area went on, and the ice became a gleaming sheath of rainbow colors. Afton hadn't skated since childhood. But, like riding a bicycle, she hadn't for
