INTRODUCING ZOMBIE ANCESTRY
When Artemisia went to her room and said she was working on zombies, she was really trying to regain a little balance and perspective. She was reminding herself of the impossibility of most people as regards their past.
The zombies were real. A real theory. When she had started teaching, she had started to collect opinions about the Middle Ages and, indeed about other times and places. She explained it to Lucia as, “A kind of Darwin Award where the stupid die off. Only they don’t just die off, they become zombies and beget zombie children who believe in the stupidities because their ancestors did. The original Flat Earthers.”
“I don’t understand,” Lucia had confessed, her golden-brown head shaken to emphasise her bewilderment.
“You know how people keep telli
