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Steel Breakfast Era

Carlton Mellick, III

First published December 2003
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella

"Hundreds of years have passed since the living dead conquered the Earth. Surviving humans have been reduced to vermin, breeding like cockroaches in ancient fortified high-rise apartment buildings. Those who are still lingering in the shadowy waste have either gone completely insane or become infested with parasites that mutate flesh into steel-string sculptures. There is nothing left to live for, no hope for any kind of future. Only the long wait for death remains. But one man refuses to die just yet. He must first find a wife, somebody who will love him, so that he doesn't have to die alone. And he won't give up until he finds this person, even if he has to build a woman himself using the scrap body parts that litter the hallways." — quoted from the product description page on Amazon.com.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
December 2003 Cover The Steel Breakfast Era / The Decadent Return of the Hi-Fi Queen and Her Embryonic Reptile Infection Eraserhead Press Anthology
2012 Cover Steel Breakfast Era Eraserhead Press Chapbook 9
May 2012 Cover Der Baby-Jesus-Anal-Plug Festa Collection 77