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“Fall” by Jessica C

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When she was six years old, Sunny Newsome watched a man die. She had just snatched five bucks from Ma’s straw purse and was hiding behind the pork barbecue truck when it happened. He dropped right there on the carnival midway in front of the World Famous Elephant Ears stall, and for a split second the world stopped. And then a crowd began to form around the dying man, and that crowd collectively stared while he sort of flopped around at their feet. Finally a woman stepped forward to help, but by then it was probably too late. And ...

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“The Unwalking” by Ari .

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I’m not stupid. When Teddy never came back from his supply run, I knew — I knew it! And four years later there he stood, staring directly at me from across the lot, his face half-eaten and gray and dead. The pharmacy stood quiet and tempting. Tall shadows wandered in the tinted windows. Unlike the thing that used to be my brother, they hadn’t caught my scent yet. That was the only thing keeping me from bolting for the pharmacy — that it hadn’t moved at all since I fell in range. You’d think the shell of my idiot brother would have the br...

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“Waste land Rambler” by Maurice Mullen

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Hank rode slowly through the vast sea of emptiness that stretched out endlessly before him underneath a blistering sun set high in a cloudless sky. As Hank rode, he thought about the last time he had seen a cloud. Had to be before the war he thought. Everything had changed after the war. The water had all but disappeared, food was scarce, society had fallen apart to be replace with bandit warlords who ran everything, and worst of all the world was overrun with fierce undead creatures that were the unfortunate by product of the war. Ever sinc...

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“Scones” by Sadie Black

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Author's note: This is one part of the Melted collection. These stories can be read individually or in any order.Hours before the birds began their song, a baker whistled to himself as he unlocked the front door of his shop. The air was crisp and cool, but only because it was so early. These days, one could reasonably expect the temperatures to soar to the upper 70s in January. It was weird, the baker admitted, but he was never a fan of shovelling snow anyway.Today, he shovelled flour into massive mixing bowls. First, he would start the brea...

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“Revenant Uprising” by Mariam Michalak

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*WARNING! Violence ahead, read at your own risk* The humvee lurches as we drive over the decrepit, empty road. I keep my gaze wandering, never settling on one spot for too long. You never know what can suddenly appear in these dark times. As if hearing my thoughts, just ahead a revenant stumbles out from the parking lot of an abandoned convenience store. A bullet implants itself between it’s ghost white eyes before it registers us approaching. It slumps, unmoving as I lift the barrel towards the sky. A grunt echoes from my left, an...

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“For Caitlyn” by Barbara Eustace

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I look at Caitlyn, my beautiful daughter. I watch her restless sleep wondering how long it will be before… But no, I can’t think of that now. Make the most of her while she’s like she is, before she succumbs. We’re just an ordinary family, me, my wife Sophie, our two children, Caitlyn seventeen, Ben fourteen. Toby, the dog. This is the time when they should be deciding their futures, looking forward to university, careers, romances. They’ll be no university for either of them, no careers either, though Ben, like Sophie an...

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“In This Dying Light” by Dori O’Sullivan

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When we stopped looking, the gods started dying. It was a quiet fall, one centuries in the making, and no one noticed until it paved the way for the apocalypse. Here, the snowflakes spiral slowly. It’s August, but the lake below us is frozen. The snow is beautiful and terrible in the same ways the gods were. I think we tried to live like them, once. Now, the sun is fading as surely as they are. As surely as we will. “It’s a fire sun,” Jaime says when she looks to the sky, swinging her legs beside me where they dangle over the dock. The...

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“Sisters” by Deborah Landers

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"Do you remember one of the first Christmas presents you picked out for me?" Misha asked."Do we really have to do this now?" Esther moaned. "There are walkers in the area."They were holed up in a house for the night, waiting out the most dangerous hours in relative safety. Not that anything was particularly safe anymore.Misha picked at the loose threads around a hole in her jeans. "No, I know. I just—""We're still seven miles out from the checkpoint and we didn't manage to find much on this run. Surely there are better things to talk about r...

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“I am not a zombie.” by Gie Garcia

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So...I am basically a zombie. My body is rotting, I can't feel pain and other sensation either, my heart stopped and my head keeps rolling on the floor every time I turn it around. But I must say I am STILL not a zombie. As to why here is my story. It all started in the year 2050 when Science was taking over the whole world. Flying cars were invented, food turns into pills, houses were portable, and gadgets and other daily necessities can be stored in just a whip of a finger. Thinking back 50 years or maybe 100 years back it was impossible...

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“Eternal” by Konstantina Cheiladaki

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"The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal." Stella underlined her writing on the chalkboard. "It is a quote by Camille Paglia and your work for today is to think about it, alright? Maybe write me a word or two on it." "What's an empire?" the dark skinned boy eyed the board with narrowed eyes. "It's, uh- Do you know what a kingdom is?" The boy nodded. "Well, imagine a kingdom, only much, much bigger, containing way more countries." "Oh," the boy nodded again, "like, like America?" The woman smiled....

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“The Bokor” by 𝕔𝕛 𝕒𝕝𝕖𝕩𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣

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“Fifty years ago, the plague swept across the planet, turning its people into something other. Wheezing, groaning, never-dying monsters who only know hunger and crave human flesh. Doctors and scientists could not stop the spread, and the old governments refused to believe it was real.“But the Bokor believed. She was a brilliant scientist and tried to reason with the leaders, but they refused to listen. So, she built a sanctuary for the healthy as the plague continued to spread. She gathered her family and as many people as she could to live ...

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“Lost Souls” by Savy Lockharte

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David glared through the trees at the two boys on the other side of the road. That's my land, my tree, my food, he thought. They happily continued eating the fruit off the tree, as if it belonged to them. Didn't think I would need signs during an apocalypse, David scoffed to himself. He raised his gun and walked into the street, toward the boys. “I'm sorry, I don't remember inviting you to my side of town,” he said sarcastically. The taller boy handed the fruit to the other and grabbed a knife from his belt. “And I don't remember s...

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“Our Worlds Collide” by Lesli Williams

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Meredith was trapped. And not only was she trapped, but she had no weapons. Several days before her elder brother, Josh, had died from a bite to the shoulder, he told her that if she didn't start planning ahead, that it would eventually be the death of her. Those words were proving themselves to be true. She was stuck in an apartment building with only a small window on the back wall, a bathroom with supplies that had proved to be useless and a daunting door in front of her that was just about to give way and let the undead flow in to do wha...

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“A post apocalyptic story that features zombies from other part of the world.” by Prince Brempong

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My story is entitled a post apocalyptic story that features zombies from other part of the world.The word zombie was first recorded in 1819 by a Poet called Robert Southey. Zombies were depicted as some sort of mindless and thinking henchmen under the spell of an evil magician. Also zombies are noted to have a complex literary heritage with antecedents. Zombies often than not use the vodoo-inspired rationale that was initially uncommon in cinema but their appearance also continued sporadically. The Return of the living dead introduced the co...

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“Zombie Love” by Marcia H.

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Someone once told me that with every sun shower there’s rain. At the time I didn’t know what that meant but today I found out because the rain was coming in a matter of hours it would be pouring all over my head in buckets. “Aretha we have to talk about something important.” Oh, no this can’t be good. Every Time someone has told me that they need to talk about something important it is always bad . My dad would say that when one of my fish would die. He’s come in the room and say, “Aretha, there’s something important I need t...

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Write a post-apocalyptic story that features zombies.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 178 stories

“Fall” by Jessica C

“The Unwalking” by Ari .

“Waste land Rambler” by Maurice Mullen

“Scones” by Sadie Black

“Revenant Uprising” by Mariam Michalak

“For Caitlyn” by Barbara Eustace

“In This Dying Light” by Dori O’Sullivan

“Sisters” by Deborah Landers

“I am not a zombie.” by Gie Garcia

“Eternal” by Konstantina Cheiladaki

“The Bokor” by 𝕔𝕛 𝕒𝕝𝕖𝕩𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣

“Lost Souls” by Savy Lockharte

“Our Worlds Collide” by Lesli Williams

“A post apocalyptic story that features zombies from other part of the world.” by Prince Brempong

“Zombie Love” by Marcia H.

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