In the special Halloween issue of READ, I interviewed a very dead Jane Austen. At the end of the interview, there was some confusion as to what happened. Well, the truth of the matter is that Ms. Austen changed. She turned from literary sweetheart to brain-eating zombie in like no time whatsoever. It wasn't cool, my friends.

She attacked me. She ate my brain. I won't go into the gory details but it wasn't pretty.

So yeah, now I'm a zombie. Arrrrgggghhhhh! Hahaha. It's not so bad. I can still type, apparently, which is nice. I don't hold any sort of grudge against Jane Austen. I still believe her to be a fine writer. I hope everyone reading this takes it upon themselves to read some of her work. If not now, then in the future. She can't help the fact that she's a zombie now anymore than I can. Stuff happens, you know? Sometimes it rains, sometimes your favorite sports team doesn't win, and sometimes you join the flesh-eating undead. These things just happen. You gotta roll with the punches, my friends.

That's all I have to say right now. I wish you all well. Feed your brain. READ.

-Zombie Bry