Write a post-apocalyptic story that features zombies.

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“TIll Undeath Do Us Part” by ELDRIDGE STIMMEL

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Till Undeath Do Us Part by Eldridge Stimmel Her description said, “Part dead, but still loving and vital.” The picture claimed ‘early virus,’ and showed a real babe. Blonde hair, natural judging by the eyebrows, porcelain skin, blue eyes, and very dangerous curves. Even so, I’d never really put a lot into looks. I preferred brains and personality. With a Bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a winning smile, she seemed to have it all. The ‘Looking For’ Section had a long column marked ‘any’ next to all the traits. In the paragraph sect...

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“Fleshers” by Lacey Wiggins

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Heidi Benet was getting ready for the first shift of her new night-clerk position at a local theatre the day that it happened. She was nervous but excited. Heidi was only 19 and this was her first real job. She was also an English major at the local university. She was known to be a little uptight and “stuck-up”, but she was also a little kind. She expected a lot from herself and wanted to make her mark in the world one day. As she looked in the mirror at herself, she practiced her “professional” face whilst applying the finishing touches to...

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“The Daily Groan” by Shaun Calvert

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“eeeuuugh, muwuuurrrrr”, you moaned to yourself as you shuffled down the street. As if reading your thoughts Mrs Smith from number 5 replied, “bbrrruuuuueeeeegh”, ‘yeah, tell me about it’, you thought to yourself, shuffling past her as she flailed impotently at the geraniums in her garden, she always did have green thumbs, now quite literally. The birds sang, the bugs buzzed and the squirrels frolicked in the trees. The birds didn’t care. The bugs were loving it. And the squirrels were fine so long as they stayed out of reach. The tasty goo ...

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“Twelve Angry Scavengers” by John Maygrove

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Silence in the gymnasium. Six people sat, dirty faced and exhausted, waiting for something, anything to happen. They stirred from their reverie as one to the sound of footsteps, the way a gazelle might respond to the sound of a branch breaking. Three more joined them. Two were armed, one with a handgun, one with a rifle slung casually over his shoulder. The other carried armfuls of canned produce, which he unloaded haphazardly onto a folding table and began arranging them, a single can caught moments before rolling off the table. Severa...

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“THE PROJECT” by Daisy Jackline

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Greg Marshall had been working all night on the new project. It was 3 in the morning and he was tired, his eyelids kept dropping every few minutes. His theory papers for the experiment lay scattered on the white desk behind him while the apparatus for his project gazed at him, the compounds in the test tubes in the rack contained the many failed samples he had done earlier in the week. He was tired yet he had to keep going on or he would disappoint the CEO of WIT laboratories, he was their only hope at developing a new species of virus that ...

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“The Day the Dead got Lively” by Gordon K

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Like most young children I made the mistake of trying to bite my ma when I was a toddler, and she gave me holy hell. Here we are Thirty Eight years later, and she’s bitten me but all I have to give her is love. Well, I guess she isn’t really herself anymore. She looks like herself but also doesn’t. Nobody’s home. The lights aren’t even on. The electric works but the power has been transferred to a new supplier. The thing you need to understand is that my ma died today, but then she woke up and I don’t know what lives in that body now but it ...

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“Screamers” by Emmett Wrighter

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No one knew why the screamers screamed. On a good day, when the wind blew in the right direction, you could hear them a mile off. That was when it was time to move, or else they’d come for you with their eyes dripping blood and throats gone raw. Whatever terror they saw, you’d have to be careful not to catch it too and if you looked into the eyes of a screamer, you were lost. People had theories and rumors, of course, but no one really knew was it was like. Something just snapped and you started screaming like the rest of them until you we...

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“Bite” by Caius Van_doren

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BITEQuinn Dimitri was not in the right state of mind this morning. Or any other day of the week, really. She was hopelessly alone in an abandoned city full of zombies - which to her, was fine. But she wasn’t fine two months ago when they first invaded. I mean, I doubt anyone would be fine with a zombie apocalypse in their area. Yes, in their neighbourhood. I know what you're thinking: ‘A zombie apocalypse? How terrible! Poor Quinn!’ However, that was not how it went down. Most of the city had left in a panic, because they didn’t realize how ...

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“ “The War against time”” by Kashaf Fatima

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Once upon a time, when the world was about to fall apart there were only two clans left. These clans had always been hating towards each other since the start of time. There were always wars and fights going on until finally there were only two clans left to fight each other. There had been so many wars that even the world was about to end with only a few creatures left in it. Yes creatures, these two clans were the resurrected clan and the mortal clan. The resurrected clan was made up of zombies. Yes you heard it right, zombies. The mortal ...

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“The Vision” by Anna Doko

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Chaos. Violence. Destruction. Pain. That’s what the world would become. Sadly, I didn’t know it yet. My name is Knight. I’m a three year old black German shepherd. This is the story of what happened to me and my brother, December. Bang. Bang. My eyes flung open to the sound of something loud and unclear in the distance. “Stay back!” I heard someone shout from close by. I look around me, taking in my surroundings. I was home, December awake by my side. I got up and stretched my legs from a night of sleeping. I was in my owner’s bedroom, bu...

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“Lost and found” by High Jinks

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It was a sunny afternoon naira woke up and found herself laying in the muds of the sea bed. Her mind tripped to rewire the old memories but she remembered nothing. She is still kind of drowsy and wants to sleep that was the only command given to her body. Yet she tried to outsmart her brain by staying awake and started recollecting the memories. Suddenly she noticed her forearm skin was dark green in color and some deep cuts in the feet that's still bleeding above the mud coatings. Yeah her memory started to expand like a fire ball but ...

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“The Awakening ” by Louise Muller

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It happened on a Thursday, the end of life as we knew it. No more lazy Sunday mornings. No more pizza take out with ‘Netflix and Chill’ on a Friday night. No more grabbing a Starbucks latte on the way to work. The pandemic took all of it. Death fell over the city, a city that was once so alive, so bubbling with life. The awakening happened on the Saturday. The infected, they were named. The few survivors lived in fear, hiding, and hoping for a future that would somehow resemble what they took for granted before the pandemic struck. The cit...

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“All Because of A Summer Day” by Robin ✿

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There was once a day in my childhood, when I met a boy who told me about the future. This is not a joke. Well, it happened when I was at least eight, and write now, I am 35.I will tell you my story.It was summer.The scorching sun in the sky was so terribly making people hot.Especially Penny.Penny coughed. She was now walking at the sidewalk. Here there were barely trees, so there was no shadow to hide in.Sweat dropped from the back of Penny's neck. They slithered everywhere, mostly her hair.The people Penny saw were all enjoying the sun.Seri...

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“Zombie Invasion” by Deekay V

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Griffin looked at the sky and sighed contently. His school was over; along with the wonderful battle training other kids thought as treacherous. Why do people think it's treacherous? Beats me. Well, but then what will they do in an invasion? Just cower inside like a baby? Well, at least I know something. He thought. "GRIFFIN! Want to play fencing? I feel bored! Even horse back riding is fine! LET'S JUST DO SOMETHING!" Kawan, Griffin's elder brother roared. Still have to beat Kawan. He thought. he is even stronger than me; He is able ...

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“Bitten ” by Emma Radford

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Day 1, You never expect the world to and until it actually does. I am writing this I think to leave something behind, so I don't become one of the millions whose voices vanished. When the first reports came out it was warmer out, I remember me sitting in Justin's car talking about our issues, our fears, our plans for the future. How much we took for granted back then, even journals like this one were just a mundane task but now this is a little part of humanity to cling on to. The day the world ended Justin and I were sitting...

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Write a post-apocalyptic story that features zombies.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 178 stories

“TIll Undeath Do Us Part” by ELDRIDGE STIMMEL

“Fleshers” by Lacey Wiggins

“The Daily Groan” by Shaun Calvert

“Twelve Angry Scavengers” by John Maygrove

“THE PROJECT” by Daisy Jackline

“The Day the Dead got Lively” by Gordon K

“Screamers” by Emmett Wrighter

“Bite” by Caius Van_doren

“ “The War against time”” by Kashaf Fatima

“The Vision” by Anna Doko

“Lost and found” by High Jinks

“The Awakening ” by Louise Muller

“All Because of A Summer Day” by Robin ✿

“Zombie Invasion” by Deekay V

“Bitten ” by Emma Radford

🌟 Similar prompts

Write a funny post-apocalyptic story.

Write a post-apocalyptic story triggered by climate change.

Write a post-apocalyptic thriller.

Write a post-apocalyptic romance.

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