school, parenting, covid-adjacent, violence reference

I’m not big on zombies, but I really like Mira Grant’s (Seanan Maguire’s) Newsflesh series. That said, there’s one story I don’t ever want to read again. The one set in a post-Rising elementary school, showing all the anti-zombie precautions the school takes…and then how they all fail horribly in an extended metaphor for school mass shootings.

This picture of individual barriers around each student’s desk…

Laminated hands and car desks: How schools are welcoming kids back

Children's school desks spaced out with clear barriers around each desk, the lower part made to look like the front of a car.

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How Seanan McGuire Perfected Her Fictional Zombie Virus

I finished reading “Blackout” earlier this month. Highly recommended. The three novels aren’t zombie stories per se so much as they’re thrillers set in a world where zombies are a fact of life. Look under the name Mira Grant for “Feed,” “Deadline” and “Blackout.”

How Seanan McGuire Perfected Her Fictional Zombie Virus