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Nic Roads
Aug 2, 20227 min read
#22: Puppies vs. Zombies
Shoot. Something awful just happened. To be fair, lots of fantastic stuff has happened lately, and I’ll get to those in a bit… but right...
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Nic Roads
Jun 29, 202211 min read
#21: Puppy Preparedness
Hello again, my wonderful fellow brain-munchers, I'm happy to report that despite Amazon's bizarre, somewhat bestial mistake in placing...
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Nic Roads
May 24, 202211 min read
#20: Springtime Slobbering
Ah, spring. The snow is gone, the flowers are growing, and warm, delicious daylight beckons us out of our humble homes. Once outside,...
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Nic Roads
Apr 20, 202212 min read
#19: BoreDom of the Dead
Hey there, If you've been reading my newsletters for a while, you probably know by now that most of my monthly updates involve me...
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Nic Roads
Mar 16, 20228 min read
#18: Show me the meaning... of poop emojis.
Hey there, So, as I mentioned last month, I got reconstructive knee surgery a couple of days ago. As I write this, I'm lying in bed, high...
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Nic Roads
Feb 16, 202212 min read
#17: I'm getting knifed!
Hey friend, Whoa, that email opener sounded kinda spammy, right? "Hey friend." Eesh. Sorry about that. I've been getting so many spam...
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Nic Roads
Jan 18, 20226 min read
#16: Zamn that Zoom...
<SIGH> Right now, I’m at my kitchen table trying to write these words while my superhumanly bored seven-year-old wiggles, squeals, and...
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Nic Roads
Dec 28, 20213 min read
#15: Do you hate the sound of your own voice?
Hey there, fellow Holiday zombie, Don't worry: this isn't my regular monthly newsletter, where I demand your undivided attention on my...
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Nic Roads
Dec 11, 20214 min read
#14: An apocalyptic gift for you!
Hey there, I'm going to keep it short and sweet this time (I know, if I were a character in Brooklyn Nine Nine, that would probably be...
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Nic Roads
Nov 18, 202113 min read
#13: Sorry for what you're about to read...
Ugh, November. Right? To me, the month of November is kind of like the aftermath of a crappy meteorological one-night stand. It's almost...
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Nic Roads
Oct 14, 20219 min read
#12: Are you scared of zombies?
Hey there, zombie pals, Halloween is on the horizon, so my mind has been on zombies. To be fair, I think about zombies pretty much 365...
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Nic Roads
Sep 14, 202117 min read
#11: Zombies in the rough
Greetings, zombie slayers, I just got back home from my annual end-of-summer boys' camping trip. Every year, I head off into the...
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Nic Roads
Aug 8, 202113 min read
#10 - 'Til undeath do us part
Howdy, fellow zombaholic, A few months ago, I asked members of my Zombie Pen Facebook group what they would do if the zombie apocalypse...
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Nic Roads
Jul 7, 202111 min read
#9 Super Zombies!
People (and by people, I mean quirky zombie nerds like me) often love to speculate about which superpowers they'd like to have during a...
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Nic Roads
Jun 7, 202110 min read
#8 Everything is trying to bite me
Good news: one of my newsletter subscribers won the Zombie Pen's Undead Giveaway! Bad news: everybody else didn't. Being somebody who...
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Nic Roads
May 5, 202113 min read
#7 - I had a Chip on my shoulder
Have you ever had a month that was so crappy you wished for a zombie apocalypse to happen, just to put things in perspective? That was my...
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Nic Roads
Apr 6, 202110 min read
#6: I dream of zombies
Do you ever have zombie apocalypse dreams? I do. More often than I usually care to admit. Lots of people have recurrent dreams. All...
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Nic Roads
Mar 9, 202110 min read
#5: 28 Days Later
Howdy folks, It's been exactly 28 days since my last newsletter, hence this email's subject line. Also, the zombie movie 28 Days Later...
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Nic Roads
Feb 9, 202111 min read
#4: Night of the Living Deadline
So many people love post-apocalyptic and zombie fiction. Why? I think it's because often we like to fantasize about living in a world...
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Nic Roads
Jan 23, 20215 min read
#3: Were you ready for this?
According to a recent scientific study, people who enjoy zombie stories were better prepared for the coronavirus pandemic than others....
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