Note: Bill Zaget is an actor and writer. His very first story, "Renfield or, Dining at the Bughouse", was published in the Ace Science Fiction anthology, Dracula in London, 2001. "Zombies on the Down-Low" was published in 2009 by Ravenous Romance in the anthology Beach Boys. "Symeon" gave him the opportunity to work through his trenchant fear of death and irony—to no avail, but it did result in an ironic tale about Death. Bill has a couple of novels on the back burner and says one of these days he's "gotta fix that stove."