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What You Don’t Know About Zombie Turkeys – Advent 5.5

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What You Don’t Know About Zombie Turkeys Could Kill You. This blog post will give you three facts about zombie turkeys that could kill you–or help you escape from death.

First, the whole story is given in the historic document from an alternate universe where they pop up.

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Secondly, not everyone has read these vital documents. You can get a leg up on your neighbor by knowing what to do and what not to do if they invade your neighborhood.

Finally, this is a great gift for turkey farmers, turkey eaters, and zombie apocalypse afficionados of your acquaintance.

This blog post is for Advent Day 5, but it’s late, so day 5.5. Your Advent Gift are these three facts, hidden in the book.

What You Don’t Know About Zombie Turkeys – Fact 1

Zombie turkeys can be shot and killed by guns – but they come back to life.

From the first page:

He felt different. More energetic, more alive. He bred with female after female in his flock without tiring. The tom stayed awake through the night. He feared no predator.

Then a turkey hunter shot him.

The setting sun overlooked a crisp, clear evening in early November. South of Bartonville, Illinois, a farmer had leased his wood lot to two turkey hunters. Big and burly in their bulky camouflaged outfits, they had just bagged one.

“Good shot, Pete!”

“He’s a big ‘un!”

What You Don’t Know – B

Pete and Bob walked up to the tom turkey, bleeding on the cold ground. The rest of the flock had scattered into the woods. He had exceptionally good plumage and weighed perhaps twenty pounds. Pete reached down and picked him up by the neck.

“He weighs at least twenty-five pounds!”

Then the turkey’s eyes opened—and gleamed red. He kicked with his spurs and pecked savagely at Pete’s arms and eyes. Dozens of his hens attacked the men from behind.

“Gobble! Gobble!”

He felt different. More energetic, more alive. He had no memory of being shot, but a certain turkey satisfaction at killing his killers. The tom also enjoyed pecking at their dead meat. He had always liked frogs, but this meat tasted better. He led his flock down the road, in search of more predators to eat.

What You Don’t Know – Fact 2

You can kill zombie turkeys by burying and squishing them – but they come back to life.

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Excerpt from zombie turkeys:

The machine operators were relatively secure in their enclosed cabs, although turkeys would fly up and peck at the windows. The tough glass, designed to resist construction debris, foiled the turkeys. All the operators had headsets by which they could speak and hear each other and what the director said. From inside the office, he said, “Go ahead and make the trench. Make it narrower, just one bucket wide.”

Operating from opposite ends of the arena, the excavators made a trench a hundred feet long, about eight feet deep, and four feet wide.

“Now, you D-11 operators, push the turkeys into the trench.”

With their huge twenty-foot blades of steel, over eight feet high, they pushed clumps of turkeys into the trench. Tangled together, in a narrow space, they couldn’t get out again.

Fact 2B

“Cover them up!”Thousands of pounds of dirt filled the trench. The hundred-ton dozers ran back and forth over it until it was as solid as the rest of the ground.

“Woowee!We did it!”The operators jumped out and high-fived each other. The script directors came out of the office to celebrate. After the celebration had calmed down, they heard a peculiar sound: ploop!And then another: ploop!And then ploop, ploop, ploop!

They turned around to where the trench had been. Like gigantic bubbles coming out of a swamp, the turkeys were popping up out of the ground. Hundreds were bursting out every second. They looked worse for wear: brown, dirty, with broken legs and wings, but they were hopping and walking and trying to fly anyway. And their eyes were still bright red. They slowly staggered toward the men, dragging broken legs or wings. “Gobble! Gobble!”

What You Don’t Know – Fact 3

You can make turkey sausage using a woodchipper. They stay dead then.

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Excerpt from Zombie Turkeys:

He turned on all the floodlights in the yard and saw that the traps he had at the doors to his barn had already been activated. These traps killed more gruesomely than the chainsaw one, but they weren’t as noisy. These traps were a series of wooden boxes, three feet on a side. A turkey-sized hole, led to a turkey-sized tunnel, led to a turkey-sized trap door, led to a wood chipper. The chopped turkey went from the wood chipper into a bin.

Tom had joked to his wife he could sell this as turkey sausage.

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Secret Supers Versus Zombie Turkeys – Who Will Win? – Advent 4

Secret Supers Versus Zombie Turkeys. ,– Who Will Win?

On this side Zombie Turkeys, you have hundreds of thousands of violent carnivorous turkeys who regenerate from any injury–even death.

Secret Supers Versus Zombie Turkeys – The Secret Supers Side

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Secret Supers Versus Zombie Turkeys

On the other side, you have the Secret Supers, four teens with super powers:

Jeremy Gentle – telekinesis able to lift and move over a thousand pounds. He still has cerebral palsy.

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Dan Elanga – his telepathy allows him to read anyone’s mind within miles. He picks up all their sensory input, which means he can other peoples’ eyes, which helps him with his blindness.

Kayla
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Kayla of the Secret Supers

Kayla Verdera – She is the opposite of Dan: she can project her sensory impressions to other people, even hundreds and thousands at a time. She still needs a walker and a voice reader because she has spinal menningitis.

Secret Supers Versus Zombie Turkeys

Aubrey Wilcosky – She has superstrength, which mitigates her two prosthetic legs for the legs she lost in a car accident.

If you’re not familiar with my Secret Supers team, I tell you all about them here: Meet My Disabled Superheroes. For each heroic teen (or pre-teen), I’ll give you a description from my book.

My Opinion on the Battle of Secret Supers Versus Zombie Turkeys

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Zombie Turkeys on the loose. From the back cover of Zombie Turkeys

On the surface, it looks like an easy win for the Zombie Turkeys. There are hundreds of thousands, or millions of them, and only four superheroes.

Further, these superheroes haven’t hit their full growth, nor their full superpowers yet. They’re only 13 years old.

But, you must look deeper.

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In Zombie Turkeys, there were no superheroes, just a newspaper reporter, Sam Melvin, and his editor, Lisa Kambacher.

They survived, and even thrived, during the apocalypse. One country’s apocalypse is another newspapers’ Pulitzer prize.

So, my verdict is, the Secret Supers would eventually win.

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Get Your Free Copy of Secret Supers in Space – Advent 3

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Why would international criminals target innocent, 7th-grade superheroes? I’ll tell you why, revealing their motives by excerpts from my book.

If you’re not familiar with my Secret Supers team, I tell you all about them here: Meet My Disabled Superheroes. For each heroic teen (or pre-teen), I’ll give you a description from my book.

First, you get the first description of Loretta.

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A popup window appeared on my computer screen. “Loretta, do you wish to accept a video call from John Smith?” I read. I quickly clicked Accept.

As soon as a black-and-gray-haired man appeared on my computer screen, I said, “Oh, Papa Smith, I want to give up.”

“Why would you do that, Loretta? You’re one of the most successful children in our family business.”

“Bah! Four crummy kids beat me.”

“Well, yeah, but you didn’t know they were there in Maryville and they would come after your agent.”

“Sure, I knew they were there. They were all over the national news this past year.”

“But everyone just thinks they’re regular disabled kids. Heck, Andy Zach published their story as fiction. No one knew they had superpowers until we caught them on video defeating your agent.”

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“The telekinesis kid, Jeremy, is really powerful, but the telepathic pair, Kayla and Dan, can’t be stopped or intercepted. That’s before you add a real super girl, Aubrey. Their disabilities gave them the perfect disguises.”

“That’s an idea. What if we publish that video and tell everyone they have superpowers? The fame would disrupt their lives and maybe distract them so we can take over Maryville.”

“Hmmm. Maybe. But that would also point back to us as the source of the video. And people might think it’s just a deep fake.”

He sighed. “You’re right. The government might also enlist them in the NSA or some other secret agency. We don’t want any attention from them. Tell you what. Take a vacation. You haven’t had a break for a long time. Maybe if you do something completely different, you’ll come up with a solution to the Secret Supers.”

“There’s a good idea, Papa. My last one was in Paris? Three years ago?”

“Yes. That was after you successfully rigged that state election and got our candidate elected.”

“What would be a complete change for me? Something outside a city, something fun—I know!”

“What?”

“I’ll go to Coaster World!”

“That’s right. You always loved coasters as a kid.”


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“Hi, Loretta. Are you all refreshed from your Paris vacation?”

“Hi, Papa Smith. Yes. I had a lot of fun waterskiing on the Riviera. I also cheated the casino in Monaco out of a million bucks.”

“Of course.”

 “But now I’m refreshed and bored. I haven’t had a job since I left for Coaster World.”

“I’m glad to hear you say that. I’ve got a challenging assignment for you—the Secret Supers.”

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“Ugh! I sure want to get back at them. But they’re backed up by the NSA. I’m not eager to tackle them and the US government.”

Papa stroked his hair. “The best cure for falling off a horse is to get back on. How about if I get a partner for you?”

“They’d better be awfully competent. I can’t really work with anyone who’s incompetent, or average, or merely a genius.”

“How about if you and I work together?”

I gasped. Papa Smith had raised me. He’d been very vague about what happened to my parents, so he was the only parent I’d known. I’d dreamt of working with him in the family crime business, but I hadn’t seen much of him once I went to college and began teaching, over fifty years ago. He was the one person I was pretty sure was smarter than me. Or at least he knew more.


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Great Elementary Super Read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 21, 2023

4.0 out of 5 stars 

This book could stand on it’s own but in order with the series. Space camp at it’s finest… with an actual space adventure. These are definitely geared for elementary age kids on to about middle school readers. They are a clean fun read with kids with disabilities with powers but being pretty “normal” which I loved. I have a blind daughter and people constantly underestimate her and her abilities or assume she has other disabilities (mental, hearing etc.).

CuteAsADaisy

A Stellar Adventure with a Twist!

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5.0 out of 5 stars 



Andy Zach’s writing takes flight in Secret Supers in Space, propelling disabled teen superheroes Jeremy, Aubrey, Dan, and Kayla into a cosmic summer adventure. Narrator Khai Lannor brings the characters’ energy and determination to life, making this audiobook an intergalactic joyride for fantasy fans of all ages. Buckle up and join the Secret Supers in their gravity-defying mission – this exhilarating journey is one you won’t want to miss!

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Most children hate The dreaded assignment ‘what did you do in the summer holidays ‘ 

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June 26, 2023

I enjoyed this book. I have never been a space fan, so don’t know much about what goes into becoming an astronaut. That meant this book was a real eye opener and I got to do it with some great characters, who knows I might even be a fan of space now. I know the story is aimed at a younger generation but it was a lot of fun and each book I have listened to in this series has had an unusual plot, making it very different to the norm and that is before you find out that the four twelve year olds are disabled. The story isn’t that long but perfect for a trip into space (and a younger audience). Besides the author packs a lot into the story in an entertaining way that keeps you listening. I hope there are more adventures to come.

Julie Howard

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