WHO WE USED TO BEWHO WE USED TO BE was written for John Joseph Adam ’ s LIVING DEAD 2 anthology. I wanted to do something very different with this story, and decided to approach the zombie apocalypse from the opposite angle. In a nutshell, everyone in the world dies, only for them all to reanimate a few minutes later.
In his introduction to the story for the LIVING DEAD 2, Adams wrote: “ Prominent atheist Richard Dawkins was recently asked if, since he did not believe in any sort of afterlife, he was afraid of death. He replied that he was not afraid of death – after all, the universe had existed just fine without him for billions of years before he was born, so why should it trouble him to imagine that it would go on existing without him for billions of years after he ’ s gone? Rather, h
