Halloween Countdown 2017, Day 24

I move closer to the glass, as close as I can get to it, begging her, begging Lily, begging Grace, begging all of them to tell me what’s left, to just tell me while the girl pushes against the window, turns her tiny hands into tiny fists, begging me for a taste of - life.

My life.

Lily disappears. Grace. They all leave, they’re gone, they will never be here again. But the wright of what they’ve shown me is settling into my bones. I don’t know if I will keep it, but just in this moment, however brief, I feel closer to it that I ever have before…

The dead girl presses her face against the glass. She wait for me to tell her what’s next.

-  from This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers  

Check out Bookriot’s list of 65 Young Adult Horror Books by Female Authors. Two of those from the list that I’ve read and that I particularly recommend just happen to be zombie-riffic: This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers and The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan. 

Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there’s no one left to tell those stories? To hear them? Who will ever know that I existed? What if we are the only ones left – who will know our stories then?

- from The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan