Waiting for Jenny Rex
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Jenny Reed? Just another kid who died from anorexia.
Jenny Rex? That's Jenny Reed back from the grave, making it her mission to inform the world about her deadly disease. Instead of dragging entrails and consuming brains, she's charming the world with her drive, her sass, and funny little streaks of innocence.
Especially Josh, the media-savvy reporter, who falls in love with the world's first zombie.
Honorable Mention in the Year's Best Science Fiction, 2003
Melissa Yuan-Innes
Melissa Yuan-Innes is an emergency room doctor and writer who lives with her husband, one son, one daughter, two cows, and too many mosquitoes outside of Montreal, Canada. She writes thrillers and science fiction/fantasy under Melissa Yuan-Innes, mysteries under the name Melissa Yi, romance under Melissa Yin, and children's/YA under Melissa Yuan. "Mixing mystery in with sheer humanity and splendid characterization, Yuan-Innes's story is a delight." --Alicia Curtis, A&E Editor, The Stormy Petrel "Melissa Yuan-Innes delivers a Bradburyian shocker" --Paul Di Filippo, Asimov's "Yuan-Innes employs a fresh use of language to spin a storyline that is at once universally familiar and intriguingly original." --Brian Agincourt Massey, judge of the 2008 Innermoonlit Award for Best First Chapter of a Novel, in awarding first prize to _The Popcorn Girl Meets Darwin Jones_
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Waiting for Jenny Rex - Melissa Yuan-Innes
Waiting for Jenny Rex
by Melissa Yuan-Innes
Published by Olo Books
In association with Windtree Press
Copyright 2011 by
Smashwords Edition
Anorexia nervosa came first. She was the first and the best. But then I'm biased, since I also like to think she came back for me.
The autumn day she walked into my life, and back to life in general, started off as usual in the Ottawa Citizen newsroom. I was cutting two hundred words out of my movie review. It was raining hard outside, but I hardly noticed until my screen died and the room went black. In that astonished moment, a shadowy, angular form appeared in the doorway.
Her heels clicked as she walked to the centre of the room. Her voice was young and clear. Hello. My name is Jenny Reed. I died from anorexia three months ago, and I've returned to be a spokesperson for the disease.
Marsha, our sports editor, was the first to recover. Excuse me. You said you died from anorexia?
"That's right. I died in the Ottawa General Hospital and I was buried in Beechwood Cemetery. Here’s a copy of my death certificate. You can ask me questions and get a doctor to prove that I am a) dead and b) Jennifer Emily Reed. But I’ll only spend an hour on that sort of proof. I want a front page story with