Stephen Jager

My Dad's a Zombie Stephen Jager

Ted's promised to take his daughter to the beach. No fatal car accident, nor Heaven's agents, nor his decaying body he's had to re-posses, is going to stop him. Once a conscientious family man, Ted now lives the mundane existence of selling insurance. Alongside his abrasive alcoholic wife Marianne, and their now fourteen-year old daughter, a dysfunctional straight-A student Rosie, they pass each other like three ghost-ships in the night. Ted dies in a car crash and lands in Heaven's waiting room. His conversation with the old man next to him fills him with a lifetime of regret - in particular a childhood promise of taking his Rosie to the beach which he has never fulfilled. The old man suggests Ted escape to fulfil his promise. Reluctant at first, Ted runs and takes the first vortex down to earth. Now being invisible, the first thing Ted has to do is reclaim his dead body, which proves difficult. Re-possessing it at least returns some elasticity but does not prevent the decay. Breaking into his own house with two of Heaven's agents now hot on his heels, Ted manages to thwart his wife and abduct his daughter. He'll explain when she wakes after having fainted, but at least they're on the road to Long Beach California. Ted and Rose reacquaint as they confide their regrets whilst discovering the advantages of 'zombie-hood' during their road trip. But now with three motorcades following, wanted in two states, Rose is increasingly endangered by her own father. Between Ted's escalating bouts of cannibalistic rage, will he be able to fulfil his promise before he complete falls apart?