A Life to Die For
by J.G. Graham

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Sunlight filters beautifully through enormous stained-glass windows depicting stories of biblical classics, including a dominant centerpiece of the Last Supper flanked by lesser images of the Virgin Mary, the Holy Grail, crucifixes, and fantastic angels. One image in particular catches Adam’s attention as he staggers through debris-filled aisles, stumbling over felled hardwood benches with drunken clumsiness, the echoes of which resonate through the nave. He steps up onto the chancel and schleps towards an image of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden… “Where’s my Eve?” he shouts at the top of his lungs… Through a strange twist of fate, eleven-year-old Adam escapes a predator’s lair, only to discover he may be the sole human survivor of a zombie apocalypse. Twenty-six years later, Adam is living large, with fine art, great music, great booze, handy-long-life batteries, and plenty of gardening expertise to keep him healthy. And what he doesn’t have, he invents, using the raw materials he has at hand…which is mostly zombies. A Robinson Crusoe for the zombie age, Adam discovers ways to employ snapping zombie-heads and flailing zombie arms that make life pretty posh on his secluded estate, but there’s one thing missing—love. And so Adam has to invent that for himself too. Wildly irreverent, slyly erotic, and infused with unexpectedly moving perspectives on man’s yearning for connection, A Life to Die For marries dark humor, a delicious yuck factor, and reams of inventiveness to answer the question: What would you do if you were the last man on earth?

www.jggraham.com

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When J.G. Graham was a young boy growing up in Montreal, he stumbled upon a movie about a guy who wakes up to find he’s the last man on earth. J.G. Graham never forgot that movie and as an adult he sought it out…only to realize it was just terrible and really boring. But the concept stuck with him, and he decided to pair it with another fascination of his…zombies. The result is A Life to Die For, a clever spin on zombie mythology that also makes the most of J.G. Graham’s passion for music and his eye for invention. J.G. Graham now lives in Montreal with his long-time girlfriend and three children.

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