The Days of Flaming Motorcycles: A Short Horror Story

Catherynne M. Valente

Mar 2021 · Come Join Us By The Fire, Volume 2 Book 22 · Nightfire · Narrated by Natalie Naudus

About this audiobook

Death changes a person, of course. But some habits will never be broken.

"The Days of Flaming Motorcycles" by Cat Valente is one of 18 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology. Come Join Us by the Fire Season 2 is the second installment of Nightfire's audio horror anthology, featuring a wide collection of short stories from emerging voices in the horror genre as well as longtime fan favorites. The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of genre luminaries like Seanan McGuire, T. Kingfisher, and Caitlín R. Kiernan; it includes stories from Nightfire’s own Cassandra Khaw (Nothing But Blackened Teeth) and Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Certain Dark Things); and from rising stars like Nibedita Sen, Matthew Lyons, and Jessica Guess. Plus, it has Nick Antosca’s “The Quiet Boy,” soon to be a major motion picture, Antlers, starring Keri Russell.

Ratings and reviews

I liked this curious take on zombies. The resonance of habit and repetition ,(a key part of zombie behavior) is elevated by the narrator into a ritual both sad and mysterious. It certainly made me intrigued to know what happens at the end of The Days of Punky Princesses.

I am not really into zombies but, the story was still interesting.

interesting twist on an overdone theme.

About the author

Catherynne M. Valente is the New York Times bestselling author of over two dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan’s Tales series, Deathless, Radiance, and the crowdfunded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Own Making (and the four books that followed it). She is the winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Sturgeon, Prix Imaginales, Eugie Foster Memorial, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus, Romantic Times’ Critics Choice and Hugo awards. She has been a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with a small but growing menagerie of beasts, some of which are human.