Write a post-apocalyptic romance.

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“Sister Widows” by Peyton Colston

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Rachel Peyton Colston (She/Her) 4433 Morgan Ford Rd. Apt. 2-S St. Louis, MO 63116 314-309-5389 wpcolston@gmail.com about 1000words Widow Sisters By: Peyton Cee She stands beside the bed and gazes down at him. He is face down, asleep, and his lanky body, nude, glistens with a thin layer of sweat. He looks absolutely delicious even though she is completely sated for the night. “And quite a night it’s been, too,” she says to herself. “Too bad it’s all we’ll have.” With a sigh she thinks back on their night. It had s...

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“The Apocalypse and Me” by Scott Wiser

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There are few things in this world of less interest, than any sort of discussion on the Apocalypse. And I told him this. Straight to his face. Or rather, where one would imagine a face, instead it is kind of a blurry empty space. Oh, don’t worry, he doesn’t seem to mind, after all, he wouldn’t be much of an armageddon of any kind, if he cared what we thought, nah to that he could take or leave. Not really one to wear his heart on his sleeve. He usually just reaches for a pint or takes a shot and winks without...

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“After the Virus” by Rodney Owen

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Amy looked over at the bodies of marauders that lay before her. She had been lucky this time, there were only 3 marauders. She feared for the day that there would be more. Thankfully, that wasn’t today. She quickly searched their pockets and relieved them of their weapons and anything that was useful, lighters, food anything she could use to help her survive. She then dragged the bodies into the bush. They will attract animals into the area that she can hunt. The sky was turning a pinky-orangy hue. It would be dark soon and far to dangerous ...

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“The Apocalypse” by Ebube Anochili

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Dear diary, It’s been 16 days since the apocalypse. I can’t overemphasize how much I miss the world before it ended. You already know this. But as the days go by, I wish for this new world to be better. I hope for better things in the future. It’s not easy but it’s all we have. Hope. Today, I want to try new things and make more friends. Yeah, more friends cos you know I already have some. Almost everyone here in Spring Hills have been great, save for Mallory, she’s still a pain in the ass. Josh and Adam have been a blessing, always st...

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“Like Theres No Tomorrow” by Jillian Goldbeck

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The date is September 22nd 2021 exactly 365 days since the second wave of the coronavirus. No scientists could have predicted the effects that have occurred. The virus had mutated to kill within the first two seconds of contracting it. People were dropping dead in the streets left and right. I was living with my parents in Miami at the time. We were trying to escape it, but my parents were not as lucky as I was. They passed away Christmas Eve and I thought that it was my last day as well, but apparently I had immunity. No one ever prepares y...

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“Ending kiss” by Duong Duy Khang

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As usual, Meg turns on the music in her phone as she wakes up. Then she goes to the bathroom, lays her phone on the wooden tower, and takes a shower while enjoying the music. She quickly dries her body and hairs when she finishes taking shower. She puts on her uniform, sits at the desk, making up and brushes her hair. - Meg, it’s time for breakfast. That’s her mother calling. Meg says “Right away” in reply and runs downstairs. Breakfast is always amazing. After finishing her mother’s little morning feast on her first day of high school, ...

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“ORIGINAL AND NOT SECOND SERVING” by SHYAMALA BHUVANACHANDRAN

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Kalidas was sitting in front of the Dean of the hospital. He had recently admitted a pregnant lady in a very critical condition. She was one of the victims he saved from the ravaged gushing floods, coupled with chopping winds and heavy downpour. It was a tremendous job for him to wade through racing currents and whirlpools. He had virtually lifted and packed her on his back with her back on his back, so that her baby-bump was not suppressed. A miraculous escape for both, from the very mouth of death! How they survived God only knows! That wa...

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“Apocalypse In F-Major” by Micah Ackerman Hirsch

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When I die, do you know what I’ll see? Sudden, radiating brilliance: the astronomy tower’s weight before it fell. Rolls of shimmering heatwaves, the courtyard cracking under its own opportunistic shove - that first messianic second of uplifted brick, of foundations uprooted. And then nothing else at all.Picture this: the shattering of Edison bulbs, the Jeffersonian ideal flung across the Great Divide and piled high like duct tape and solo cups.Lord, I never could hate those scientists, or the makers of war. I tried so hard to confound their ...

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“Ash” by Evangeline E.

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Sakurai Kano stared out the window, bored of the class. He wanted to go outside and do something. The sky was clear, and clouds moved at a slow pace. It was peaceful. He turned his head to the side, next to him was his seatmate. Hara Mayumi. Her eyes were closed as her head rested on her palm. She breathed softly, her long eyelashes glimmering in the light. Her short hair pulled into a ponytail, was coming undone from her hair tie. To him, she looked beautiful. Kano turned his head back to the window, and soon enough, the class was over....

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“Entering the door” by Marjorie Kabwe

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In the year 2222, Earth was invaded by an unknown enemy of alien origin. The military was brought down in less than hour. Before anyone had time to grasp what was happening, the slaughter begun. Countless of UFOs appeared in every city destroying everything and anything that moved with plasma canons. Nearly a third of the world’s population was eliminated. There was no way of fighting back until 10 years later, when I stumbled on something I shouldn’t have. It was spring. The forests were as green but not teeming with wildlife. In all my 19 ...

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“The Sweet Kiss of Plague” by Natalie Johnson

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Cambridge - October 1349 Isabella hummed as she walked through the almost empty streets of the town. Seven months since the end of the world had passed through Cambridge on its journey north, yet life still felt wrong. It felt as though the worst was still to come. The pestilence had arrived the previous year. At first, it began slowly. A few deaths in distant towns. By the time the population were aware of its existence and its severity, it was too late. During the winter of 1348, the situation became even worse. Virtually everyon...

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“Warmth in the Cold” by Khalid El Achab

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Warmth in the Cold Prologue The year is 2031; the earth just witnessed a Geomagnetic Reversal, causing a shift in the earth’s orbit around the sun leading to an instantaneous massive drop in temperature. In the blink of an eye everything froze up. Only a few humans who happened to be in an isolated space survived. In the example of our protagonist Mark: a computer science nerd who locked himself in his mother’s basement, offline, coding his time away and only realizing that an Apocalypse took place when his electrical generator ran out of ...

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“Today’s A New Day” by Naomi Hairston

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I dreamt we danced under the stars. The CVS parking lot was empty and the street light acted as our own personal spotlight. Music played softly from inside your truck as you slowly twirled me alongside it. In my dream, we were alone, not just in the parking lot, but alone from the world. As we danced we created our own. In our world, the static that interrupted our song, didn’t exist. In our world, gnats and moths weren’t fluttering back and forth across our spotlight and we didn’t have t...

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“Stranger than Fiction” by Cassandra Reece

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“At the end of the world, meet me at the border where the lights fall.“ Even after everything has happened, these are the words that stick in my head. They were loose words, spoken to me amidst the curtains of sleep one night, and yet I hold onto them as if they are a taut rope pulling me to shore. I follow them even though I can’t see the end. To hold onto something as allusive as a dream when I can’t even remember the feeling of my comforter… Well, maybe it’s only natural. Besides, I have given up debating whether my feet walk of the...

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“Protecting the realm” by Julie Adamson

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It’s not every day you survive the apocalypse. Then it’s not every day they have one. It was meant to be the journey of a lifetime. I was in Scotland when the news announced that a large meteor was to hit the Earth in three weeks. I thought at first it was something out of a Hollywood movie. However things changed overnight, people were scrabbling to stock up on food, trying to get home or find a safe place. I wanted to go home, however it was near impossible to get a flight home. The phone lines w...

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Write a post-apocalyptic romance.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 196 stories

“Sister Widows” by Peyton Colston

“The Apocalypse and Me” by Scott Wiser

“After the Virus” by Rodney Owen

“The Apocalypse” by Ebube Anochili

“Like Theres No Tomorrow” by Jillian Goldbeck

“Ending kiss” by Duong Duy Khang

“ORIGINAL AND NOT SECOND SERVING” by SHYAMALA BHUVANACHANDRAN

“Apocalypse In F-Major” by Micah Ackerman Hirsch

“Ash” by Evangeline E.

“Entering the door” by Marjorie Kabwe

“The Sweet Kiss of Plague” by Natalie Johnson

“Warmth in the Cold” by Khalid El Achab

“Today’s A New Day” by Naomi Hairston

“Stranger than Fiction” by Cassandra Reece

“Protecting the realm” by Julie Adamson

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Write a funny post-apocalyptic story.

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