suddenly didn’t seem as oppressive as the new version of life did. There had been so many things to do that deciding among them had been the defining aspect of difficulty, he realized, as he took another sip of wine – the only wine available – and regarded the girls in the candlelight. Now, there were only two girls to choose from – one, really, if that were still a going concern. Maybe there had been too much choice for the average person in the world before the zombies. Maybe that’s what had made it so confounding to the average person: how could anyone know what to choose?
But now, with almost nothing to choose from, it was easy to figure out what made you content: a woman, a bottle of wine, the flicker of a candle. Dinner wasn’t what you had to choose amongst, it was what was offered. Remy smiled to himself as if he had made some sudden great insight into the nature of life: choices were a trap, you only need a few options, not infinite ones, to make you happy. He smiled. He had a blonde and a brunette in his room; he only had to choose.
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About the Author
William Young can fly helicopters and airplanes, drive automobiles, steer boats, rollerblade, water ski, snowboard, and ride a bicycle. He was a newspaper reporter for more than a decade at five different newspapers. He has also worked as a golf caddy, flipped burgers at a fast food chain, stocked grocery store shelves, sold ski equipment, worked at a funeral home, unloaded trucks for a department store and worked as a uniformed security guard. He lives in a small post-industrial town along the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania with his wife and three children.
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