Write a post-apocalyptic story that features zombies.

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“Love, blood, and zombies” by Ebony Rose

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I glance at the clock, only thirty minutes until school is over. The intercom crackles to life," This an emergency assembly, please go to the gym." My teacher, Mrs. David grabs the emergency red bag and says, "Line up at the door. Quietly!" Everyone goes to the door, whispering and wondering what's going on. "Izzy." I look to my left to see my best friend, Zea. "What do you think is going on?" I shrug and say," Its probably nothing." We get to the gym, it smells like sweat and confusion. Our class sits on the bleachers. ...

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“Apocalypse Anonymous” by Scott Jed

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An average Thursday night played out in the battered town of Halifax. Well, as normal as you could get for two years post-apocalypse. A band of strugglers convened in the decaying local hub, the community centre. It was insignificant in appearance even in its golden years but was now dire by most standards. Still, chairs circled centrally in the main hall weekly for Apocalypse Anonymous. Secrets were shared. Problems were halved. This new world order care and consideration contrasted previous cataclysm. “Twelve months ago, I was desperatel...

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“Here to Stay” by Nicholas Keck

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Ghostly remnants, of a time soon to be forgotten, hung delicately against the milky skyline. The bones of an old theatre reverberated with the thumping of two desperate hearts. A scream ripped through the stale air, and echoed through the halls of the plaza framework. “The scout found us, we’re gonna be surrounded. We gotta move.” Owen whispered, pulling on Anna’s shirt sleeve. The frail girl stumbled after him, clutching onto his wrist. They weaved over and through the wreckage of an old concession stand. Anna snagged some unopened candies ...

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“It's Not a Wasteland” by Avalon Manly

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The whole place smelled dead. Not of death, but of deadness, of nothing having been alive there for God knew how long. The sun beat down an unforgiving white haze, and the metal rusted into pockmarks, and the plastic sloughed off its shapes to drip and drool into a series of malformed curlicues. She had absolutely no sense of how much time had passed, and kept losing her own feet in the heat waves that rolled off the blacktop.There was no other life in this place, though she had practically no idea what constituted life anymore. It was hard ...

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“Cycle of Consciousness” by G. Baerwolf

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I stumbled through the hospital corridor, leaving red handprints on the clean white walls as I went. I could hear the footsteps, tens of hundreds, trampling over each other in the stairwell behind me. I stayed focused, searching desperately for the operating room. I passed one door, then two as the screams began to echo behind me. I turned a corner and increased my pace, aggravating the wound on my ankle. A wild gunshot rang out from down the hall behind me. My eyes widened and I saw the sign ahead of me, three doors to my salvation. I heard...

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“"I ain't gonna let ya"” by Kiersten Elin

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The Dead groaned loudly and banged against the glass doors at the sight of us. The murky glass kept me from seeing past the first 2 rows of Dead, and those alone would be more than we’d ever faced in the past year that we’d fought together. Was he as nervous as I? I decided I didn’t want to know. If he was nervous then that meant things were really bad. Maybe he could see my heart pounding against my ribs or my stiff legs as I walked closer to the doors, but when I looked back at him he gave me a reassuring nod. Right. We could do this. The ...

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“Dead Signal” by Eric Daily

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Five stories under the Chthonic Labs Alpha-1 facility, in a chilly glass-partitioned room, Guy and Deana decided to take a break. Beyond the glass was the observation chamber, walled in cold steel. There lay fifty-four human corpses in a space no bigger than a cargo container; some were weeks old, others were months, but most had been dead for years. The chamber was dark, and nothing could be seen except fifty-three little red lights jumbled around near the floor. With some input codes and the flick of a switch, he could make al...

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“Barry Newton's Awakening ” by George Davis

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Barry Newton’s Awakening—George Davis The long, dark tunnel had no light at its end. Barry Newton walked, hand on the wall of the underground passage. “Wow, it’s pitch-black in here. Where am I?” As Barry moved slowly along the path, his vision sweeping side to side in the black abyss, and his mouth was as dry as a parched desert. The last thing I remember, he thought to himself. I was crossing the street, going to the barbershop for my monthly haircut. I vaguely remember seeing a stretch lim...

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“Mimicry” by Cynthia Lee

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In this city, I can't smell anything. Besides the scent of death. But there was no other choice. The five of us have to loot the food stock that is still left here. Therefore, we devised a strategy, how to penetrate the sea of zombies from one point to another. Without getting caught, we weren't one of them. Yeah, at first, this mission was scary to me. Fear of being caught and crushed like prey for piranha fish. Just the thought of them gobbling up my brain already makes me pee in my pants. But there w...

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“The Manor” by Alexa Paredes

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My family consists of restraint, obedience and perfect. I live on a manor on a tall hill. Not many like to wonder up here. I've lived 16 years of isolation. No friends. My dad never let me outside the walls, but never hid the wonders and horrors of the world. My only friend, my mother died five years ago. Like my mother I was dark haired but my eyes but brown. I was the only one who had brown eyes in my family. My mother's were black and my fathers blue. I was allowed to watch the news, and have social media, but he had control over what I w...

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“Pa Collapsed” by Scott Wiser

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The east side zombies were always friendly and polite. They felt it only appropriate to ask before eating any brains. Who would just go up to someone and take a scoop. It seems really very rude. “People don’t walk behind the counter to steal ice cream from those buckets, right. So why should anyone, go and scoop peoples brains”. Miley’s father used to say that all the time. Or some variation of it anyway. People rarely repeat themselves exactly. There is always an extra word, an Um, or some other ...

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“The Cure That Killed Us All” by J. Marc

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The dinner was served. Three potatoes and a carrot.“Thank you, Lord God, for another blessed day. Please continue to give us your grace and protect us especially Papa. All these we ask in Jesus' name. Amen,” Ben prayed almost sobbing. They all knew that this could be their last supper together. Tomorrow, Leo has to go out to find more stock that he could get for (who knows) a couple of days or months more.After they ate, Leo kissed his sons' goodnight as they went on their bed.Five months, nineteen days. Leo sighed a...

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“Alone ” by Kimberly Caplinger

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Seventeen year old Samira had never found it hard to be alone no matter where she was. Whether she had been in school - she would find a corner with a book and read. When she was at home, she would go outside and enter the woods behind the house and find a tree to climb up and spend hours there, reading, thinking and listening. She would sit at the dinner table with her parents and her two year old brother, Tootie, and daydream through their conversations. She must have daydreamed right through the talks of what to do if zombies had taken ...

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“After the End” by Claudio G. Henze

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“You know, I really miss videogames.” By his count, this was the fifth time Matt made the same comment, with the same heartfelt sorrow. “I know it’s not a priority right now, but I just do.” “I would settle for a drive-through,” replied Dan. “Or delivery,” he added just as he finished going through the last drawer on his side of the room. He sighed. “Nothing here either. Looks like we are going back emptyhanded. Again.” Daniel gave an empty can a frustrated kick. Not strong enough that it would make a loud rattle, of course. That would be ...

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“When the Lights Go Out” by Wendy Parks

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The world had gone into freefall and the darkness was descending. There was a global melt down and there was a frantic rush to be evacuated from the country she was currently holed up in, to try to get back home to some level of security before a calamitous civil unrest ensued and the zombies arrived. In the dead of the night, she boarded a bus and was shuttled to the already closed and deserted airport. The coach sped through deserted villages and towns, ignoring speed limits and road markings in desperate attempts to get ...

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Write a post-apocalyptic story that features zombies.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 178 stories

“Love, blood, and zombies” by Ebony Rose

“Apocalypse Anonymous” by Scott Jed

“Here to Stay” by Nicholas Keck

“It's Not a Wasteland” by Avalon Manly

“Cycle of Consciousness” by G. Baerwolf

“"I ain't gonna let ya"” by Kiersten Elin

“Dead Signal” by Eric Daily

“Barry Newton's Awakening ” by George Davis

“Mimicry” by Cynthia Lee

“The Manor” by Alexa Paredes

“Pa Collapsed” by Scott Wiser

“The Cure That Killed Us All” by J. Marc

“Alone ” by Kimberly Caplinger

“After the End” by Claudio G. Henze

“When the Lights Go Out” by Wendy Parks

🌟 Similar prompts

Write a funny post-apocalyptic story.

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Write a post-apocalyptic thriller.

Write a post-apocalyptic romance.

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