WISH I WAS HEREWritten specifically to close this collection, WISH I WAS HERE is a very short story which looks at the difference between the living and the dead, post-Rising. Although we usually think about zombie stories in terms of us versus them, there are no real winners and the lines between the two opposing sides become increasingly blurred. It feels like it has always been this way. It’s so long since it began now, so long since everything changed... Before these days her world used to always be filled with light and noise and people, but all that’s gone now. All silenced. All dark. Stripped of all emotion and pared down to nothing. Back then, back before it happened, she had a sense of purpose, a reason for being. She got up at a set time each day and worked her way through the

