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Write a post-apocalyptic thriller.

Posted in Thriller and Suspense on Jul 27, 2021

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Beauty Is Not Always in the Eye of the Beholder

Submitted to Contest #60

The Pledge of the People to The Great Healer: On this day, the 8th of November, we mourn the losses of the Irreparable Despair, We remember the days of old and the time before now, We realize our faults, beg forgiveness for the past, and look forward to the new. We praise the Great Healer and all Her works.  She is our great provider; the one true savior. The books say the world wasn’t always like this. They say that it once was cruel and dark and full of anger and hatred. I am glad I never had to live in that world. I don’t kno...

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The Monsters Within Earth

Submitted to Contest #60

I call them ‘moles.’ No, they’re not the funny-looking animals that dig tunnels underground and eat the roots from your mother's garden. These are creatures so terrifying that the first time I saw one, I pissed myself.  It all started during a global heatwave, unlike anything humanity had ever witnessed. I like to call it ‘the Heat.’ Dramatic right? Anyways, cities were left without power for weeks, the oceans steamed and left beaches littered with cooked fish, and Antarctica turned into the biggest lake in the world. Scientists worldw...

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Promethean

Submitted to Contest #60

By the time people realized that it was critical, it was too late. The virus had slipped through our usually zealous defences of overreaction and sensationalism by appearing much less than it was. That, and the world was crisis-weary. Another plague. Another fire. Another hurricane. It was as though the planet were mustering its own manner of counter-offences to answer the unabating insults of human development. The bacterium mobilized voraciously, and to devastating effect. * * * I looked out over the North Shore. The electric glow ...

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The Release

Submitted to Contest #60

‘One is not afraid of the dark because he thinks he is alone, it’s because he thinks he isn’t.’It’s been a year since the Release. The clouds look whiter than before. The wind blows faster. The air is much easier to breathe. I have been wearing the same jeans since 3 months and it makes me laugh at how I used to do this before the Release as well. They’re a bit tattered now at some places but that was bound to happen. All I have to cover my torso is a T-shirt that has been torn through the middle so it looks more like a shirt. And it doesn’t...

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Until Dawn

Submitted to Contest #60

We crouched there, Eli, Sophie, and I, behind a clump of cars, waiting and on the watch for Mom and Dad. Finally, I spotted them approaching the convenience store doorway. It was then that I saw one. A rogue. My heart dropped at the sight of him, as he walked toward the same entrance my parents were about to come out of. Dried blood lined his forearms and covered his clothes. He was whistling an awful, high pitched tune as he tossed a bloodied hammer spinning it into the air and catching it again, hunting for more victims.    ...

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Her Personal Apocalyse

Submitted to Contest #60

“The ending is just a beginning worth repeating,” Evie mumbled to herself shaking her long brunette curls, “or was it the other way around?”  Realizing that was her first post apocalypse thought, a sharp splinter of dread ripped through her chest and tingled down her spine, as she laid in her bed wrapping herself tighter in her plum colored comforter.  In her world ending blur, everything she knew, touched, watched and belonged to was disappearing around her. “Wait…wait!  I am not ready,” Evie pleaded. ...

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Roam

Submitted to Contest #60

Warning: Reader discretion advised.“Shit. Fuuck!” All she wanted was to start a damn fire! Should have known better. Nyx’s lungs burned, she hissed with every breath of carbon dioxide that re-entered her lungs through her face mask. “Screw this bullshit!”The sound of an engine revving assaulted her ears. He was getting closer. The thick soles of her boots crunched under the stone rubble in her frenzied escape. Nyx hurriedly took a left into an alleyway. Maniacal laughter sent chills down her spine. “Can’t run forever, girly!” Her pursuer how...

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If We Weren't Alone

Submitted to Contest #60

I was never meant to exist. Since I was a kid I’ve always believed that to be true. I never really felt I belonged here on earth. Loneliness was just par for the course. Even in groups, a small part of me would always feel cold inside, like something was wrong. A puzzle piece stuck in the wrong box that didn’t quite fit with the others. So when I was running to a home that had been turned to rubble on that fateful day the sky started raining fire, being the only person left around didn’t scare me. At first I searched for my parents and fou...

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