The Miracle Man: Stitched together from seven different cadavers, and back from the dead with a living brain instead of the undead hunger everyone’s born with. He hits the local diner looking for a meal, all too aware of the looks he attracts.

Nobody else wants to serve him, so Megan steps up. She recommends dishes and brings the Miracle Man his food, and for all her instincts tell her to put a bullet in his skull, she tries to remember that she’s a professional.

Serving a living zombie is the hardest thing she’s ever done, but it just might awaken something Megan’s never realised about herself.

The Miracle Man Eats by Peter M. Ball is part of the Red Rain Collection, a fiercely weird series of short stories which blends the dirty realism of Raymond Carver with the absurdity of the zombie apocalypse. Snack on these delicious morsels of fiction between longer reads or devour the entire series in a single sitting.