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Z-motors [Kindle Edition]

Terry Wright (Author)
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In this satire on zombies in the workplace, the dark side of the auto repair business is exposed, and a mechanic’s quest to overcome unemployment leads his family down a disastrous path.
The owner of Z-motors has a problem with his employees. They are brainless zombies who eat their customers. He needs a mechanic with a brain, so he places a Help Wanted ad in a Denver newspaper. Unemployed Jim Lowry is looking for a job as a Master Mechanic. The perfect position opens up in a small-town auto repair shop on the Colorado plains. He loads his family into their SUV and sets out for Z-motors. He’s about to apply for the job from hell.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 318 KB
  • Print Length: 30 pages
  • Publisher: TWB Press (29 Dec 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B006RHZH30
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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Z Motors is A-Okay! 2 Nov 2011
Format:Kindle Edition
This is the first Terry Wright story I've read and it had me hooked from the opening sentence. After the first paragraph I was smitten and by the end I was drooling like one of Dean Zyla's maniac mechanics. The prose is pacy, the dialogue delectable and characters, especially poor Jim Lowry, a down on his luck master mechanic just looking for an honest day's work, are believeable to the point that you really don't want anything bad to happen to them. However, as Wright builds the tension, you just know there's something running not quite right down at Z Motors and that ain't good news for Jim and his family...

But is this story truly the grotesque horror it paints itself to be? Yes, it has all the elements of a classic zombie yarn (brain munching a-plenty, gross disfigurements, blood and gore a go-go). Yes, it has an ominous sense of dread (that horrible tingly feeling down my spine as I read it, not really wanting to turm the page but having too). Yes, it brings in aspects of the modern zombie (the undead still wanting to go about the tasks they did in their pre-undead lives). But, and this is the big question... is this really about zombies or is it Wright's attack on the modern workforce? Have I just read a zombie novel or a satirical shot at how the service industry has gone down the pan? Either way, this is one heck of a story that will make your flesh creep and your hackles rise! An intellegent piece that works on so many levels.

If you've ever seen the Creepshow movies then you'll love this as it would sit very nicely into that category of macabre message. Simply put, if you like your horror uncompromising, you'll do no wrong by choosing Wright!
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Scary short 5 Nov 2011
By DjG - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition
Z-motors is unquestionably one of the best short stories I've read this year. Dean Zyla is a master motor mechanic with an unusual appetite. He has a shop full of workers who seem more intent than destroying the cars than fixing them.

Dean needs a new mechanic to keep the rabble in check, so he puts out an ad. Jim Lowry jumps at the chance to get back on the employment ladder and makes his way, with wife and daughter in tow, to the job interview.

What happens next is an uncompromising romp into the wonderful and horrific world of Terry Wright's imagination. Terry keeps you hooked to the page and wanting more. The ending culminates in a rampaging torrent that doesn't let you go. Not even when you've read the final word.
Z Motors is A Okay 3 Nov 2011
By C. Jones - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition
This is the first Terry Wright story I've read and it had me hooked from the opening sentence. After the first paragraph I was smitten and by the end I was drooling like one of Dean Zyla's maniac mechanics. The prose is pacy, the dialogue delectable and characters, especially poor Jim Lowry, a down on his luck master mechanic just looking for an honest day's work, are believeable to the point that you really don't want anything bad to happen to them. However, as Wright builds the tension, you just know there's something running not quite right down at Z Motors and that ain't good news for Jim and his family...

But is this story truly the grotesque horror it paints itself to be? Yes, it has all the elements of a classic zombie yarn (brain munching a-plenty, gross disfigurements, blood and gore a go-go). Yes, it has an ominous sense of dread (that horrible tingly feeling down my spine as I read it, not really wanting to turm the page but having too). Yes, it brings in aspects of the modern zombie (the undead still wanting to go about the tasks they did in their pre-undead lives). But, and this is the big question... is this really about zombies or is it Wright's attack on the modern workforce? Have I just read a zombie novel or a satirical shot at how the service industry has gone down the pan? Either way, this is one heck of a story that will make your flesh creep and your hackles rise! An intellegent piece that works on so many levels.

If you've ever seen the Creepshow movies then you'll love this as it would sit very nicely into that category of macabre message. Simply put, if you like your horror uncompromising, you'll do no wrong by choosing Wright!
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