The HBS Author's Spotlight SHOWCASES Author Armand Rosamilia's New Book: Dying Days 6.
Armand is the author of Horror, Metal, Zombies, and Crime Thriller novels and short stories. Also, Armand has a very successful Podcast.
Dying Days 6
Author: Armand Rosamilia
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Continuing the Dying Days zombie series!
Darlene Bobich, the Zombie Killer, is on a mission to save her family. Can she succeed, even as more obstacles are thrown in her way: survivors bent on their own selfish needs, evolving zombies and the rotting world around her?
Dying Days are truly upon us…
Excerpt from Dying Days 6
Prologue
Her name had been Eve, which she thought fitting.
She loved watching football as a kid with her dad in Upstate New York. Dad was a Giants fan so she’d begun rooting for the rival Jets. Now, she wished she hadn’t been such a bad daughter.
“I need her to shut up,” Eve said quietly to the terrified man in chains.
The woman had been screaming for hours. At first Eve thought it amusing. How long could someone yell when they were slowly tortured?
Too long.
“Should we take her off the table?” the man in chains asked.
Eve moved with lightning speed and slapped the man across the face, driving his nose into his skull and killing him. Eve smiled and licked the trace of blood on her hand.
She no longer needed the blood or the violence but it came with the power. She needed more power. As a teen she'd read a book about Countess Bathory and thought it was very cool. Now Eve wanted to be the new Bathory. She needed a new subject to do her bidding now, too.
“Unchain this dead man and get his pitiful body out of my stadium,” Eve said.
Two servants ran and did her bidding as quickly as possible, never making eye contact.
Eve pointed at the woman, stretched on the table on the sideline below.
“I grow weary of her screams. If she isn’t going to tell what I need to know, hang her in the parking lot with the others,” Eve said.
Humans were so problematic but necessary right now. As much as she wished she could wipe them off the face of her earth, she needed them as she grew in power. She needed them to keep others away from this stadium, and rebuild it in her image.
The markings of the football team formerly housed here were now gone, a pile of broken teal, black and gold standards and banners either burned or piled on the practice field away from this spot. Eve didn’t want to see another jaguar or dumb football slogan, although the giant screens needed to be fixed and the markings taken from them at some point. She’d already lost three humans climbing to the top of the stadium without finishing the job.
Through the tunnel, she could see two small eyes watching. It was the little girl, so inquisitive and curious despite her mother’s fear that Eve would eat her.
“Come, little one,” Eve called out from across the stadium. She smiled and motioned with her hands.
The girl got six steps before her mother ran out and grabbed her roughly by the shoulders, steering her back.
“Let her go,” Eve yelled.
The woman took another step back, ignoring the command.
“I will not say it again,” she said. Eve was moving, already down the steps and onto the field.
The mother stopped, back rigid as she stood between Eve and her precious daughter, not looking back.
Eve lightly pushed the woman away, not even bothering to look at her. She wasn’t important. The mother was just another female to birth more children who would someday grow to help build an empire.
“What’s your name?” Eve asked, bending down and smiling.
“Are you a monster?” the little girl, maybe six years old, asked.
Eve laughed. “Is that what your mother’s been telling you?”
“No, ma'am,” the mother answered quickly. “I just… we need to get back inside. It is your law we don’t come out unless you call for us.”
“Maybe I did call for her. You didn’t tell me your name, honey,” Eve said. She smiled at the little girl again.
“Amber,” she said.
She laughed. “Amber is a fat girl name.” She had such pretty red hair.
The mother opened her mouth to say something really stupid but wisely turned away without a sound.
Eve put her hand out. “Come, Amber, we have much to discuss.”
The woman tried to step between her daughter and Eve again.
“You’re dismissed,” Eve said.
“My daughter…”
“No harm will come to the child. I just want to talk to someone so innocent for awhile. I grow so bored with adults who think they know what I want them to say.” Eve looked down at Amber. She was a skinny little thing. Unlike anyone she’d ever known named Amber. Including her own sister, Amber.
When the woman didn’t immediately back down, Eve grinned and leaned forward. The mother stared into her gray eyes, frightened but her maternal instinct overpowering reason and survival.
“Don’t let me slice your throat in front of your daughter. You cannot win this battle. The only thing you can do is put your trust in a monster like me and pray to your God I don’t do anything bad to your precious child,” Eve said. She patted Amber on the head and pointed. “Go run across the field as quickly as you can. I’ll wait for you on the other side."
When Amber began to run, crossing the football field, Eve turned back to the mother.
“Are you not fed?”
“Ma'am?”
Eve raised her hands. “Do I not protect you from the zombies? Do I not get you food and drink, a bed to sleep in, and entertainment? Am I a bad ruler?”
The mother shook her head quickly.
“Then it makes me curious why you don’t trust me with Amber. Have I ever touched one of the children or said something inappropriate? Have you heard rumors from others in your group?”
“No.” The woman stared at Eve and she could see she was trying to keep her thoughts as hidden as she could, even though it wasn’t working.
“You’re worried about me hurting her. You should be more worried about yourself, especially if you can’t offer me what I want,” Eve said. “If I were you, I’d take this time alone and realize it’s a gift. Go back and find a mate, because barren females aren’t anything more than zombie bait.”
Eve was about to threaten her further when the images in her mind startled her.
She turned back to see Amber standing on the other sideline.
“Amber, I want you to run around the field. Play. Have fun. I’ll be right back. I’m going to talk with your mother and then you and I will eat M&M’s and drink soda,” Eve said.
She turned back to the mother and put a hand on her shoulder.
“Take me to the men who are forcing themselves on the women. These men will be dealt with severely so this doesn’t happen again,” she said.
The mother shook her head. “No. Please don’t do anything. I can handle it.”
Eve looked at Amber as she started running. “Eventually, once you’re all broken, they’ll start on the children. This is what men do. This is why I am here now. To cull the herd so we can find only the ones worth living.” She grabbed the woman roughly by the chin. “I am not asking you to tell me. I will eviscerate you in front of the flock to prove a point, do you understand? I am not your friend. I am not going to rip these men apart brutally because I love my followers and want to show them justice. I am doing it because you are my property and every dead woman means one less baby for me. I need a population to continue my work. Take me to them.”
She nodded her head slowly.
Eve grinned. She hadn’t had to kill anyone and make an example in too many weeks.
The Chosen One was coming right to her, drawn to the power, and she needed to stay sharp.
Author Genre: Horror, Nonfiction
Website: Armand Rosamilia
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Author Description: Armand Rosamilia is a New Jersey boy currently living in sunny Florida, where he writes when he's not sleeping. He's happily married to a woman who helps his career and is supportive, which is all he ever wanted in life...
He's written over 150 stories that are currently available, including horror, zombies, contemporary fiction, thrillers and more. His goal is to write a good story and not worry about genre labels.
He runs two very successful podcasts on Project iRadio, too...
Arm Cast: Dead Sexy Horror Podcast - interviewing fellow authors as well as filmmakers, musicians, etc.
Arm N Toof's Dead Time Podcast - with co-host Mark Tufo, the duo interview authors and filmmakers and anyone else they feel like talking to
He also loves to talk in third person... because he's really that cool. He's a proud Active member of HWA as well.
Author's Book List
United States Of Apocalypse
When World War 3 erupts on American soil it is up to some less than likely heroes to band together and stand tall against any and all comers as a once proud nation is brought to her knees.
Cowardly terrorist attacks and indifferent Global communities have isolated America as she spirals into a desperate bid for survival.
Follow Darlene Bobich, and her group on the west coast along with Michael Talbot on the east coast as they do everything in their power to thwart those that would take everything that they and all of us are, away.
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Belford Stories
October 1987...
A small fishing village on the New Jersey coast is ready for the high school football game and an oncoming snowstorm
Willie Davidson... his mother left town when her husband died, leaving her son to fend for himself with winter approaching...
Frankie and Gary Paul... two cousins sharing a public works truck and looking for trouble...
April Schwartz... a lost teenage girl trying to prove how adult she is...
Billy Hunter... the police officer with a chip on his shoulder...
George Smith... an aspiring musician who just wants to play music and hang with his friends...
Jimmy Petrucci... a family man with a wandering eye that could get him in hot water...
Garrett Simms... the star quarterback for the North team, trying to keep his focus on the game...
These and more Belford residents are waiting for you!
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The Enemy Held Near
Foster and Ruthie Turner tried to save each other, their marriage, and their family. Every house is haunted with the past of the people who live there. When one tries to stay and the other tries to leave, everyone will face the dire consequences of both those choices.
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Shocker
- Shocker Trilogy Book 1SHOCKER is the horror humor story of a prisoner, a religious idol, monsters and mayhem.
Vito “The Shocker” Shocketti has been locked away in Rahway State Penitentiary for twenty years of his life sentence. In that time not one cellmate has endured being quartered with him for very long. That all changes when a young kid, Manny “Dirty” Sanchez, gets put with The Shocker.
A star struck Manny begs “The Shocker” to tell him his legendary story of crime and murder. Vito decides to unload on the kid, who becomes more and more engrossed in The Shocker’s tales of living life on the edge in the seedy heavy metal club scene in 1980’s New Jersey.
The Shocker, impressed that Dirty has not begged the guards to move him from the cell, drops a bombshell. All the murders The Shocker committed were directed at the behest of Baby Jesus. The Shockers tales devolve into the weird and insane.
Could The Shocker be making it all up to make Manny think he is criminally insane or is the Baby Jesus real and has a higher plan for the both of them?
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Dirty Deeds
I get paid to erase problems.
Did your extramarital affair produce an unwanted complication? Family problems? Just want to enjoy your midlife crisis by yourself?
That's where I come in. For a fee I'll take care of it. A big fee.
Only, I'm not going to do what you think. I'm not going to save you from them, I’m going to save them from you.
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Green River Blend
- A Supernatural ThrillerNothing exciting ever happens in a small town…
Especially in the sleepy Florida beachside stretch known as Hammond Beach, nestled between Daytona Beach and St. Augustine. Free from corporate businesses and a slew of tourists descending upon the quaint former fishing village, Hammond Beach is like a painting.
Locals run the businesses on Main Street. Even when a new coffee shop opens, the owner hires only Hammond Beach locals, including manager Betty. She’s born and raised in Hammond Beach and knows everyone.
But when the latest and greatest coffee is put out, Green River Blend, strange things begin to happen to the residents of Hammond Beach…
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Dying Days 5
Darlene and John have been scattered... can they fight through miles of undead to find one another? Will The Lich Lord destroy what is left of this post apocalyptic world? Will the Main Street compound survive another day?
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Dying Days 4
"Level up with Rosamilia's take on smarter, scarier zombies! They don't sleep and neither will you. Read this now!" ~ Robert Chazz Chute, author of This Plague of Days
"Armand Rosamilia has masterly crafted a unique zombie book with many moving parts. Dying Days 4 should be on every zombie fanatics TBR list" ~ Mark Tufo, author of the Zombie Fallout series
"With Dying Days 4, Armand Rosamilia continues to carve his own glorious path through the zombie apocalypse. His unique blend of sex and violence, well-rendered melancholy and tough as nails, pedal to the metal can do attitude makes for a story that gets it all just right. Rosamilia is a bright light for a dark country, and one of a handful of writers I know I can turn to when I want to have the crap scared out of me. He's that good" ~ Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Dead City and Plague of the Undead
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Dying Days 3
Flagler Beach Florida is a wasteland of ruin and gore, looted and picked clean of supplies… and now, Darlene Bobich and the other survivors have an even bigger problem…
What could be worse than a mindless zombie horde? They are about to find out.
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Dying Days 2
St. Augustine, the oldest city in what used to be America… now an apocalyptic wasteland, where undead fight over the scraps…
For Darlene Bobich and the remaining survivors it will be the ultimate test… zombies surrounding them, zombies coming from the ocean, across the Bridge of Lions… undead searching in eternal hunger…
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Dying Days
Sunny Florida, beautiful beaches, no traffic on A1A... Zombies roaming the dunes in search of the living... Darlene Bobich in a fight to survive, find food, safety and ammo for her Desert Eagle before its too late... the undead are coming to exterminate the human race...
Dying Days are upon us... The Undead Roam the Earth... Searching for the living in an apocalyptic wasteland
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Highway To Hell 2
Randy Jackson's car has been stolen by a hot redhead, more guns pointed at his face than he can count, and zombies around every corner. Just when he's about to toss in the towel, a mysterious blonde saves him... but why?
The long-awaited sequel to "Highway To Hell" (which began the "Dying Days" zombie series) and sequel to "Dying Days: Origins" is upon us...
The zombie apocalypse is in full swing but sometimes your fellow survivors are more deadly than the undead
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Highway To Hell
- Dying Days Book 1The end of the world is upon us... the zombie plague has taken over... and your former friends and loved ones don't want to just kill and eat you... they want to violate you...
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Darlene Bobich
- Zombie Killer - Dying DaysThirteen tales of Darlene Bobich in one book!
The prequel to the successful "Dying Days" zombie novella series
Find out how Darlene Bobich got her start in this post apocalyptic world overrun with zombies... her fights and her fleeing from the devastation of her home in Maine down to Florida, and the adventures that follow even as the world around her devolves into extinction…
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