Bits & Pieces (52 page)

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

New material and compilation copyright © 2015 by Jonathan Maberry

“Sunset Hollow” reprinted with permission from John Joseph Adams & Hugh Howey, copyright © 2014 by Jonathan Maberry

“Jack and Jill” reprinted with permission from St. Martin's Press, copyright © 2012 by Jonathan Maberry

“A Christmas Feast” reprinted with permission from WordFire Press, copyright © 2014 by Jonathan Maberry

“Overdue Books” reprinted with permission from Dark Moon Books, copyright © 2013 by Jonathan Maberry

“Dead & Gone” copyright © 2012 by Jonathan Maberry

“Tooth & Nail” copyright © 2013 by Jonathan Maberry

Rot & Ruin: Warrior Smart
text reprinted with permission by IDW Publishing, copyright © 2015 by Jonathan Maberry

Jacket photograph copyright © 2015 by John E. Barrett

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Maberry, Jonathan.

[Short stories. Selections]

Bits & pieces / Jonathan Maberry. — 1st edition.

pages cm. —  (Rot & ruin ; book five)

Summary: Twenty-two short stories, eleven of which were previously published, based on the Rot & Ruin series in which fifteen-year-old Benny Imura and his friends fight a zombie plague in a post-apocalyptic America. Includes a related comic book script.

ISBN 978-1-4814-4418-7 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-1-4814-4419-4 (pbk.)

ISBN 978-1-4814-4420-0 (eBook)

[1. Survival—Fiction. 2. Zombies—Fiction. 3. Bounty hunters—Fiction. 4. Brothers—Fiction.]  I. Title. II. Title: Bits and pieces.

PZ7.M11164Bit 2015

[Fic]—dc23

2014047164