If you’ve yet to read the first three offerings in Bourne’s Day By Day Armageddon series, I’m sure to drop a spoiler or two, so there’s your warning shot. On the flipside, if you aren’t at all familiar with J.L. Bourne, then by all means take a walk with me here.

No, Bourne hasn’t injected a Tardis into the DBDA universe and Kil isn’t charging after hordes of the undead with a sonic screwdriver. Instead, Grey Fox takes us nearly 30 years into the future (sans callbox) where we find our narrator in the Florida Keys, or better known as the southern border of the “inclusion zone” aboard his sailboat, the Solitude.

Bourne returns to his powerful first-person journaling approach which we haven’t seen full on since “Beyond Exile”. I could’ve read Grey Fox, bypassing the first three altogether and most likely drawn the same conclusion. Perhaps it’s tamer than the other DBDA titles, but this one, for me, is about the character. “I’m going to take a piss off the fantail and then go inland to shoot some zombies. How’s that for a Facebook update?” See? Poetry.

Although it lacks page after page of mangled carcasses hurtling through cordite scented air and meat-strewn deathscapes, Grey Fox is a great short story by one of the best writers in the genre.

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