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I'm mix Sullivan author of I see Lincoln's underpants which is a book about well famous people's underwear. You'll find all of those

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The Past and the Curious with Mick Sullivan.

That's me.

Many years from now, you're walking down an empty street.

At the other end of the block, a figure appears.

At first, you assume they have all the qualities of a fellow human being.

But then you notice something odd. Instead of walking down the

block with purpose, they have sort of a shuffling side-to-side way of walking, almost like a toddler taking a directionless stroll.

Then, all of a sudden, they pause.

Their head snaps quickly in your direction, and they start to move with purpose now.

A discombobulated run.

You realize that they are not as human as you first thought, and they're picking up speed. You look to your left and to your right, but the shops are boarded up and there's no alley to turn down.

You shouldn't have come out here alone, but your group needed supplies.

You're doing the best you can to survive.

The zombie apocalypse.

Dun, don't, don't, done.

You might have guessed from the description that the figure coming towards you in that story is a zombie.

While lots of us might believe that zombies are just fictional creatures in movies or TV shows or maybe something we could be for

Halloween, there are people who think that while zombies might not exist now, a zombie

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