Dead Men Walking: A Novelette (2014)Inmates used to catch fire on Old Sparky at Alamosa County Prison. Now they reanimate. At Alamosa County Prison's Death Row, Corrections Officer George Palomino tells the new hire a horror story about the time an execution went terribly wrong, ending in a fellow guard's murder. In Cell Block C, known around Alamo as "Z Block," everyone's a dead man just waiting to make it official. Even the guards.