Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Fruit Of Thy Womb
    The Fruit Of Thy Womb
    The Fruit Of Thy Womb
    Ebook40 pages37 minutes

    The Fruit Of Thy Womb

    By Lori R. Lopez

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    One of the themes of this novelette is to not wait for the world to be ending to start living. It’s hot, and it’s going to get a lot hotter when humans mutate into cannibalistic corpses. But that’s not all; bugs are everywhere. In fact, bugs could be to blame in this worst-case scenario that may seem a bit close for comfort! Strap on your gas-mask while the pesticide flows. They’re coming. Watch your back . . . and your front. Watch everything!

    Look for the author’s horror collection ODDS AND ENDS, containing “The Fruit Of Thy Womb”!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLori R. Lopez
    Release dateJul 3, 2013
    ISBN9781301969302
    The Fruit Of Thy Womb
    Author

    Lori R. Lopez

    Lori R. Lopez wears many hats as an Author and Speculative Poet of Horror, Fantasy, Suspense, Humor and more. She illustrates her books and has written songs, while being an Activist for animals and children. Growing up, Lori roamed graveyards and conducted funerals for dead birds, squirrels, insects and spiders. Her offbeat books include The Dark Mister Snark, Leery Lane, An Ill Wind Blows, Darkverse: The Shadow Hours, Odds & Ends, and The Fairy Fly. In 2023 Lori won Third Place in the Long Category for the SFPA Poetry Contest for "Wake Unto Death". Her Poetry Collection Darkverse was nominated for an Elgin Award and a Finalist in the Kindle Book Awards. Her poems "Crop Circles" and "Nocturnal Embers" were nominated for the Rhysling Award in 2020, "Social Graces" and "The Whistle Stop" in 2021, "Biting Sarcasm" in 2022, "The Whippoorwill" and "If Houses Could Talk" in 2023. Poems "The Maw" and "creatures of the macabre" received Editor's Choice Awards among other honors. Stories and verse have appeared in The Sirens Call, The Horror Zine, Space & Time, Spectral Realms, JOURN-E, Weirdbook, Bewildering Stories, Dreams & Nightmares, Impspired, Altered Reality, Aphelion, and anthologies such as California Screamin' (the Foreword Poem), HWA Poetry Showcases II, III, V, VI, and IX, Journals Of Horror, Grey Matter Monsters, Dead Harvest, Fearful Fathoms I, Terror Train I and II, Trickster's Treats #3, Speculations III (Weird Poets Society), and In Darkness We Play. A member of the Horror Writers Association, Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, and Lewis Carroll Society Of North America. Visit the Fairy Fly Entertainment Website Lori shares with her two talented sons, and their YouTube Channel @FairyFly. They have a Folk Band called The Fairyflies.

    Read more from Lori R. Lopez

    Related to The Fruit Of Thy Womb

    Related ebooks

    Horror Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Book Club

      Nov 9, 2023

      Book Club
      5 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Sep 14, 2023

      Book Club
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Orphan’s Dilemma

      Aug 10, 2021

      In a few minutes they’re going to say, “It’s your turn, Harold.” He will face Ms. Wickham with her thick black frames and smiling, slightly bugeyed look, the question more in her eyes than on her lips because he already knows what that question is. H

      11 min read

    • Article

      The Hound and the Hidden Homework

      Feb 1, 2019

      The Hound and the Hidden Homework
      4 min read

    • Article

      Books

      May 29, 2023

      Books
      6 min read

    • Article

      Cricket League

      Jan 1, 2022

      It was an unusual birthday. Colorful banners blanketed the backyard. Kids chased each other through the grass. Adults talked. It all went downhill from there. My little sister was turning five. On her birthday cake, painted in frosting, was a fat, pi

      7 min read

    • Article

      Fitting In

      Oct 1, 2021

      Fitting In
      6 min read

    • Article

      Would You Kill Mum For Me?

      Jun 19, 2019

      Would You Kill Mum For Me?
      7 min read

    • Article

      Behind The Scenes

      Oct 18, 2021

      Behind The Scenes
      8 min read

    • Article

      The Redacted

      Mar 31, 2020

      The Redacted
      11 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      May 25, 2022

      Book Club
      5 min read

    • Article

      Off The Beaten Track

      Apr 9, 2023

      Off The Beaten Track
      2 min read

    • Article

      To Eat Your Own Children

      Nov 5, 2020

      To Eat Your Own Children
      5 min read

    • Article

      ‘It’s Really Strange To Be Reminded Of Your Perpetually Dead Parents’: Frieda Hughes On Her Famous Literary Family And Her Magpie Memoir George

      Apr 28, 2023

      ‘It’s Really Strange To Be Reminded Of Your Perpetually Dead Parents’: Frieda Hughes On Her Famous Literary Family And Her Magpie Memoir George
      9 min read

    • Article

      Gold

      Nov 20, 2020

      Gold
      10 min read

    • Article

      D Day

      Oct 6, 2022

      D Day
      18 min read

    • Article

      His Brilliant Career

      Mar 19, 2023

      His Brilliant Career
      9 min read

    • Article

      His Neighbor’s Wife

      Jan 10, 2021

      The autumn air was crisp as the Subaru idled in the residential street. Despite the early hour, the Enforcers lined the sidewalks, passive as they fulfilled their obligation. They were there to witness the act and were not to engage with the players

      8 min read

    • Article

      Echos

      Jan 10, 2019

      Before Corrine’s husband abandoned her in Berlin, he liked to say that her name reminded him of the word “corrupt.” But ending in a twist rather than a split. Her last name was the French word for “swimsuit” but he never mentioned that. This seemed s

      17 min read

    • Article

      The Family Plot

      May 7, 2020

      The Family Plot
      10 min read

    • Article

      Nice Monsters

      Feb 27, 2024

      Nice Monsters
      7 min read

    • Article

      Dagstuhl

      Nov 13, 2019

      Dagstuhl
      11 min read

    • Article

      His Neighbor’s Wife

      May 10, 2023

      The autumn air was crisp as the Subaru idled in the residential street. Despite the early hour, the Enforcers lined the sidewalks, passive as they fulfilled their obligation. They were there to witness the act and were not to engage with the players

      8 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Nov 12, 2020

      Book Club
      2 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Fruit Of Thy Womb

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Fruit Of Thy Womb - Lori R. Lopez

      The Fruit Of Thy Womb

      by Lori R. Lopez

      Fairy Fly Entertainment

      All rights reserved

      No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any

      media without written permission from the author, except

      brief excerpts in critical reviews and articles.

      This is a work of fiction. Any and all references to real persons, events, and places are used fictitiously. Other characters, names, places, events and details are fabrications of the author’s imagination; any such resemblance to actual places, events or persons, whether living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Copyright © 2013 by Lori R. Lopez

      First published in the anthology Darlings Of Decay, 2013.

      Artwork by Lori R. Lopez

      Cover Design by Fairy Fly Entertainment

      Author Photo by Fairy Fly Entertainment

      E-Book Edition (EPUB)

      Table Of Contents

      The Fruit Of Thy Womb

      Table Of Contents

      About the author and artist

      More works by Lori R. Lopez

      Another unique zombie tale from Lori R. Lopez, the author of Heartbeat and The Lycaning, this time with Fruit Flies and two jaded strangers who learn that they are not as alone as they think.

      One of the themes of this novelette is to not wait for the world to be ending to start living. It’s hot, and it’s going to get a lot hotter when humans mutate into cannibalistic corpses. But that’s not all; bugs are everywhere. In fact, bugs could be to blame in this worst-case scenario that may seem a bit close for comfort! Strap on your gas-mask while the pesticide flows. They’re coming. Watch your back . . . and your front. Watch everything!

      Imagine a world owned by corporate greed, where the bottom line is NOT the public good. Capitalism might seem a lot like Communism . . .

      The end of the world began with a rotten banana. Ziggy Boyle stood in an alley on a blistering day and nonchalantly peeled the piece of fruit — then noticed to his disgust the white interior had dissolved to a dark slimy pulp. Gross! Dropping it, he wiped sticky fingers on the front of a black shirt and ground the heel of a loafer over the squishy mound. He next spent a full minute scraping mashed banana off the bottom of his shoe onto the pavement. The peel had still been yellow. It was the last time he would steal a snack from that supermarket. Imagine if he paid for it! Indignation seethed. Out of habit, he suppressed his annoyance. Couldn’t denounce the corporations, even under one’s breath. It wasn’t wise.

      A mass of cockroaches scuttled to mob the smeared fruit, a common sight. You couldn’t go anyplace without seeing them. Must be the heat. Temperatures kept breaking records. It was all people yakked about on the tube. That and storms. There were always bigger storms than the last. Not to mention the massacres. Terrorism was on the rise. It might be a hate group. It might be the meltdown of some suicidal nut-job with a grudge and a bag

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1