A post apocalyptic story that features zombies from other part of the world.

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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 concept of some zombies eating brains.


However zombie Apocalypse does experience the concept in which the civilized world is brought low by a global zombie infestation. This has also become a staple of modern popular art. Zombies are often seen as stand-ins for some other discriminated groups struggling for equality and the human zombie romantic relationship. Zombies are also subject to some wild desires and free from social conventions. Again the Zombie lineage can be traced back to the Ancient world. Also ideas about zombies tells of the resurrection of the Dead that the resurrected dead are degraded and more violent than their living. Zombies are also defined in popular culture.

The concept of zombies is mentioned to be more influential. There is a popular evolution of the zombie that happens to be the fast zombie or the running zombie.


A mad scientist also attempts to revive human corpses with some mixed results. The resurrected dead were uncontrollable often mute , primitive and extremely violent referred as zombies. Also not using the term zombie or undead ,average zombies does feature prominently in early years. As noted fast zombies can run and are more aggressive and often intelligent. These zombies were introduced as the undead person that had been regularly encountered in fictional horror and fantasy works. These zombies are noted to be entirely distinct from ghosts, ghouls,mummies, Frankenstein's monsters or some sort of vampires. Zombies were also noted as some sort of fictional creatures usually portrayed as reanimated corpses or virally infected humanbeings. Again these zombies are noted and commonly portrayed as almost cannibalistic in nature. The Zombie Apocalypse seem to occur where civilization collapses due to swarm of zombies overwhelming social law enforcement and some other military structures. Other victims of zombies may become zombies themselves whenever they are bitten by zombies or when a zombie creating virus infects them. Almost everyone who dies seem to become one of the undead a zombie.

Other parasitic organisms can cause zombification by killing their host and then reanimating their corpses. Also as observed in the latter scenario zombies prey on the living including humans and their bites do cause an infection that kills mankind and the entire human race.


Also in this scenario there is a cause of the outbreak to become an exponentially growing crisis the spreading zombies u plague swamps ,law enforcement organizations, the military and health care services ,leading to the panicked collapse of other civil Societies. These basic services such as piped water supplies and Electrical power shut down, mainstream mass media then ceases broadcasting and the national government of some affected countries that collapses and goes into hiding. Other survivors usually begin scavenging for food,weapons and some other supplies in a world reduced to a mostly preindustrial hostile wilderness.


As noted there is usually a safe zone where the non-infected can seek refuge and begin a new era. All zombies also allow people to deal with their own anxiety about the end of the world. Almost all other zombies and other monsters are fully and literally apocalyptic they seem to signal the end of the world.

It can be observed that zombies are almost extremely traumatic causing some sort of shock , panic, disbelief and possibly denial , hampering survivors ability to deal with some hostile encounters.

The zombies are also given the plague time to also expand beyond containment . These zombies are the cause and the collapse of a given society. There are subsequent attempts for them to always survive on their own.

Other characters does react to such an extreme catastrophe and how their personalities are then changed by some stress.


However these zombies are slow lumbering and unintelligent kind first made popular in the 1968. All these zombies are more agile , vicious , intelligent and stronger than the traditional zombie. Other fast zombies use living humans infected with a pathogen in Zombie land. Romero mentioned about varieties of zombies.

There are special zombie types that may be included either as unexpected mutations or superior classes compared to standard zombies, boasting some special abilities or heightened skills such as strength,speed or ferocity. There is the extinction of humans with the global human population succumbing to the epidemic being killed by existing zombies.


The zombies also experience an apocalypse. The post-apocalyptic is a dystopia or some sort of horror in which the Earth's technological civilization is always collapsing.

The Apocalypse is noted to be climatic such as a runaway climate change. There is an imaginative zombie Apocalypse or Alien invasion. Other attempts to prevent an Apocalypse may be post Apocalyptic after the event.

Also other post apocalyptic events do take place in a non technological future world or a world where elements of Society and Technology does remain.

Other officers used a zombie Apocalypse scenario as a training template for operation emergencies and catastrophes as a tool about basic concepts of some means of military plans and some disaster preparation to outlandish premise.


As almost noted different weather conditions affect zombies abilities. The temperature seems to affect zombies ability in life.

Again other surviving humans would like to maintain the tendency to feed an entire zombie population .

It can also be observed that the Zombie Institute of Technology (ZIT) is dedicated to using real science to explain what could be expected in the event of an actual zombie Apocalypse that survives in a zombie invasion.


Finally, the primary epidemiological risk of zombies besides their difficulties of neutralization and their entire population is subject to some constant growth generation of surviving humans.

September 22, 2020 10:32

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21:37 Nov 25, 2020

A piece of advice a shorter story title makes the story more appealing instead of a one-sentence summary of the story. This is quite unique content. Good job!

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01:06 Oct 01, 2020

A very unique concept.. Well written 👍🏽👍🏽 Would you mind reading my story" The blood seed Killers"

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