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On the morning news, a grey-suited doctor had said it was not a horror but a godsend: that the dead were infected and made animate proved that there was a life after death, and with proper study and rigorous testing, soon mortality itself would become a thing of the past. (This was before the universities and seminaries were crushed and crumpled beneath the weight of the dead, mute fists hammering into solemn halls of learning, muddy workboots and funereal pumps with broken heels leaving an eclectic tread across the monochrome fields of abstracts and dissertations.) When the city morgues vomited up their
