First Lines: "The Naturalist", from Maureen McHugh's After The Apocalypse

"Cahill lived in the Flats with about twenty other guys in a place that used to be an Irish bar called Fado. At the back of the bar was the Cuyahoga River, good for protection since zombies didn't cross the river. They didn't crumble into dust, they were just stupid as bricks, and they never built a boat or a bridge or built anything. Zombies were the ultimate trash. Worse than the guys who cooked meth in trailers. Worse than the fat women on WIC. Zombies were just useless dumbfucks."

After The Apocalypse: Stories
Maureen F. McHugh
Small Beer Press/Consortium | 9781931520294 | $16 | Oct 2011 

You can read a sample at Small Beer's site.

First Lines: Henry VIII: Wolfman

It was his time of the month and Henry was getting hungry.

If only he could find a body in a gibbet, he thought, he could eat that.

– Henry VIII: Wolfman by A.E. Moorat (also the author of Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter)

Take that, Tudors!

 

Henry VIII: Wolfman
by A.E. Moorat
Pegasus Books (distributed by W. W. Norton & Co.) | 9781605981987 | $15.95 | Aug 2011

Publishers Weekly review.