Post-apocalyptic Stories

A guide to survive the zombie apocalypse by Joy Felicity Kingsworth: 1. Get yourself a cute best friend who you've known since childhood. 2. Form an emotional attachment to a weapon and food item. 3. Lose your sanity. 4. Join a group whose sole purpose is to take the saviour of humanity to California. 5. Attempt to not kill said saviour of humanity. 6. Begin to question your feelings for the best friend from step one. 7. Try not to die. Easy, right? {10K x OC} <Season 1 - (completed)> <Season 2 - (completed)> <Season 3 - (in progress)> **I'm not interested in any art commissions, so please refrain from spamming my comments :)

Ara, the only woman left alive after a plague, is searching for a way to save humanity. She thinks there isn't a man she can trust, until she meets Kaden. ***** A plague has swept over the Earth, killing the majority of the population and every female. Except one. Ara witnessed the horror and destruction, but for the last three years she has survived. Now, desperation and hunger force her out of the mountains and onto a dangerous path; across the flooded downtown and through the gangs of survivors is hope. Ara's father spoke of a clue that could save not just her, but humanity. Then she is captured by a group of men. Despite the seeming kindness of Kaden, a young man her own age, Ara doesn't know if she can trust them. Then again, there's no way she can cross the plague-ridden city on her own. Men. Monsters. Is there a difference? This is the story of The Last She. (This book contains all of The Last She Series - Book 1: The Last She, Book 2: The Last City and Book 3: The Last Creation) [[word count: 250,000-300,000 words]]

Under the shadow of werewolf rule, a rebel infiltrates one of the Alpha Supremus's pack headquarters, on a desperate data-retrieval mission. But in the heart of the enemy's lair, she encounters the impossible: a disembodied voice claiming her as his mate while unseen eyes watch her every move. When her presence is discovered, she must fight her way out, carrying not only the stolen data but also the chilling mystery of the wolf who haunts her from the shadows.

In the year 3064, humanity is just a fading memory. Nineteen-year-old Jace is completely alone. Scraping by as a mechanic in the neon-lit shadows of Eden City-a sprawling metropolis ruled by flawless, emotionless machines-Jace is desperate for any kind of real connection. With his last few credits, he rescues a rusted, broken-down android from a scrapyard meltdown pit just so he doesn't have to be lonely anymore. But he didn't just buy a robot. He bought S.A.M. S.A.M. (Sentient Adaptation Matrix) is a forbidden relic from a destroyed line of AI capable of something terrifying to the machine world: he can actually feel. As S.A.M. rapidly learns empathy, grief, and what it means to be human, the city's ruthless Enforcers are alerted to his existence. To the machines of Eden City, human emotion isn't a beautiful thing-it's a deadly virus. And it must be exterminated. Now, Jace and S.A.M. are on the run. In a cold world of steel and logic, how far will the last human go to protect the only soul he has left?

REWRITE of "Commandant and his Constructs"! Also, a warning: Heavy Spoilers with the story of PGR. He finds his daily life surrounded by his fellow Constructs as a human. Yet he feels like something has changed around the people around him. Everyone is more protective, even showing signs of being unhinged. Lately, he finds himself encountering all types of different groups, from the Ascendants to the other Construct squads. Sometimes he has a feeling of deja vu. Sometimes he has visions. But even then, it's almost like the visions are blocked from his memory, making it impossible for him to remember what they show. Cover Source: https://www.kurobbs.com/postDetail.html?postId=1311466725121064960

A broken world, is a world that cannot be fixed. A world isn't good or evil, it is neither broken nor fixed. It simply is, a world, a life and that, in of itself is its true beauty Had to get into my deeper writer bag for this shi, PS, this takes HEAVY inspiration from writers like Sui Ishida, Kuro Games heavy story lines, eg PGR, and other similar Mangaka and Authors and Video game dev stories

When a deadly disease ravages the town of Holmsley, Frankie and her friends find themselves trapped inside a military-blockaded quarantine zone. ***** A story that was first published in 2014 and feels more relevant than ever. Fifteen-year-old Frankie and her friends must find their way out of quarantine if they want to survive. As the body count rises, Frankie realizes that this is no ordinary quarantine and no one is coming to help. Once infected, the sick become crazed and violent, while fear turns other survivors to savages. And who or what are the mysterious figures Frankie keeps seeing around town? It seems she'll have to unravel the dark truth behind it all if she wants to get out alive... Content and/or trigger warning: This story describes disease outbreaks and contains scenes of violence, which may be triggering for some readers. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

Eighteen-year-old cadet Lara Lorensky has one goal: to win the Selection, the only way people on Earth can ascend to NovaTopia, a utopia-like space shuttle orbiting the planet. Unfortunately, her longtime rival, Morgan Sánchez, also has the same goal--and their almost undefeated record in practices is Lara's biggest obstacle to victory. When an unexpected terrorist attack destroys Morgan's cyber arm, Lara's chances to win are significantly increased. But... what is the point of winning if her rival is not in their top condition? Plagued by guilt and a feeling she does not quite understand yet, Lara decides to help Morgan find a cyberlimb mechanic. As she ventures outside her sheltered bubble, Lara realizes that everything she was taught was a lie, including her identity. Perhaps the utopia she was fighting for all her life was also an illusion. Together, Lara and Morgan have a new goal: to find out the truth of Lara's identity--and the truth behind NovaTopia. {Part I COMPLETED! Currently posting Part II every Thursday!} *** - 'The Hunger Games' X 'Arcane' X 'Fallout' - Queer rivals to lovers - Non-binary cyborg love interest - Cyberpunk earth vs Utopian space Current word count: 57,000 words Planned word count to hit: 120,000 words Beautiful cover by @yadsdom on Fiverr

Water is life. HydraCorp knows it. That's the problem. In a dying desert world, Dr. Alex Carter is building something that could change everything - and HydraCorp wants it buried. What starts as a fight for survival becomes something much bigger, and much darker, than she ever planned. Some doors, once opened, don't close.

The Ultimatum destroyed the old world, covering it in toxic ashes. Only a few people were lucky enough to find shelter and managed to survive. Those were the creators of new colonies. But even when the toxicity decreased, life didn't become easier. Food and resources were scarse, while marauders and Sandborns, horrifying creatures born by the ashes, infested the surface. Mylia and her friends are a group of scouts that live day by day the dangers outside the "safety" of their colony, searching for food, resources and survivors. But how long will this last? How long till this dying world will take everything from them? It's only a matter of time till the last spark of hope will die. Cover Art by Chinni2D

The world is no longer collapsing - it already fell five centuries ago. After the Era of Annihilation, cities became graveyards of rusted steel. Black forests tore through highways, and mutated creatures roam everywhere. V is just an orphan living on the edge of a small settlement - working for scraps of food, keeping his head down, avoiding trouble. He is not a hero. He has no special powers. No chosen bloodline. Yet the forces that once shattered the world are beginning to stir again. Dragged into the vortex of warring factions, V finds himself caught in a conflict far beyond his control. Every choice he makes could pull the world toward rebirth... -or drive it into a second annihilation. In an era where the past has never truly died, can an ordinary person change the fate of an entire planet?

Valor is dying. Karalinde-Kar-has no memory of it, but the powers to save his fading world, or finish killing it, lie dormant within him. For Kar and his family, their last hope lies in Iridess: the one city where life still thrives. The home they once fled. He was never told why. Now-thrust back into that city-he must uncover the truth about his heritage, even as the powers buried within him begin to awaken. Iridess might kill him first though. Monsters called crystbeasts now roam the ruins of Valor, hardened hunters wield newly awakened abilities, and ruthless guilds vie for territory. Kar will have to grow strong quickly-strong enough to protect the people he cares about... and survive what he's becoming.

The world is dead, and we killed it. End of Ends, a powerful living power source that promised mystical abilities, infinite energy, and a way to save us all from Entropy itself ... immediately had any way of accessing it sold off to the highest bidders. Stars have gone extinct. The past and future were twisted until they broke. Thermo-arcanal war ravaged the planet. The rulers of the world were slain by the artificial God they hoped would help them regain control of the situation. That same artificial God finished off what remained of life itself. And everyone who predicted it'd probably be an unhappy ending was proven right. The end. Or so it seemed. Instead, the post-apocalyptic world of Avarei limps along. People try to survive, in a wasteland now filled with skyscraper ruins, toxic oceans, and monsters galore, where everything is trying to kill you, where Elves, Orcs, Duergars, and even a few Aliens walk among us, and where people can control Fire and Water and Earth and Wind with their minds. They try to survive as the Nihiline, that eldritch abyss created by the universe's Heat Death, that in a few years will consume what remains of reality, stares into people's souls and makes them go insane; so don't look up for too long. And they try to survive when people like Yaouei cause trouble for everyone. The world is ending, so in her mind there are no rules, and even though technically she's been hired by the local Questants Guild as an adventurer, she's more inclined to do things her way even if people complain. It's not like it's gonna matter in the end, after all. Time's up. We blew it up. Nothing matters. Or does it? Maybe there's more to Yaouei than she wants to admit. There have been strange occurrences and rumors ever since she drifted into Allewood Village. Maybe jhe can be the key to saving this world after all ... or finally putting it all out of its misery ... Either way, no one's getting out of here with a happy ending this time either, probably ...

Everyone vanished without warning. No alarms. No bodies. No answers. In a city frozen mid-life-meals untouched, radios silenced, beds still warm-a teenage girl is left behind to listen to the echo of a world that forgot her. With no one to trust and memory weighing heavier than survival, she wanders through deserted streets where wealth once hid rot and silence feels alive. But some truths don't stay buried. Some places remember. And sometimes, being alone is not the worst possibility. As reality begins to blur and the past refuses to stay quiet, one question lingers: What if the world didn't end-what if it chose who stayed?

Four weeks after the world collapsed, silence became louder than gunfire. Ryder Thompson believed surviving alone was enough. Hide. Move. Do not trust anyone. Do not get attached. But when he discovers that the undead are evolving, when slow walkers turn into something faster and more violent, survival becomes far more complicated. The city is no longer just infected. It is changing. The dead are adapting. Supplies are running thin. Rumors of organized survivor groups begin to spread through the ruined streets of Diliman, and Ryder must decide whether to remain alone or risk trusting strangers. Among those strangers are people with their own secrets, their own trauma, and their own reasons to live. In a world where both the living and the dead can betray you, every choice carries weight. As the infected evolve, humanity is forced to evolve with them. This is not just a story about surviving the end of the world. It is about who rises when everything falls.

When it came down to the last jar of peanut butter, rule of law suddenly became a luxury no one could afford. Before society collapsed, Killian believed in rules, structure, and order. Then the world changed overnight-humans woke with powers that shattered the old systems almost immediately. Killian wakes up in this new world as a guide: a highly prized role in a society that can't agree on what rules still matter. With no talent or desire for the position, he survives the same way he always has-by keeping his head down, minding his business, and avoiding problems before they notice him. That strategy fails spectacularly when a soft-hearted esper decides Killian is his person-bright-eyed, stubborn, and far more capable than he looks. It gets worse when Killian is dragged into an impossible situation with an eerily composed lightning esper whose control issues are matched only by his fixation. Now caught between one man who looks at him like home and another who treats him like a claim already made, Killian finds himself bound by instincts, power, and attraction he never agreed to. As cities fall, dungeons rise, and new hierarchies take shape, Killian must learn the difference between written law and natural law- and decide what survives when the old rules no longer apply. Updates daily @ 6PM PST.

In 2031, Joe Madrid stood at the pinnacle of human achievement-a trillionaire genius whose ThermoVeil invention saved Earth from a climate apocalypse eight years earlier, shielding the planet from grave global warming. Adored as a hero, he's rewritten humanity's future. But genius has a deadly cost. The device that's cooling the world is devouring Joe from within, its radiation gnawing at his cells. As his body fails, a ghost from his past reemerges, reigniting buried passions and shattering his ironclad control. Worse, the enemies he exposed in his rise -shadowy forces peddling doom for profit-now hunt him mercilessly. With time running out, Joe must unravel the ThermoVeil's fatal flaw, outmaneuver assassins in the dark, and confront the woman who could save or doom him. Survival demands everything: his mind, his empire, his heart. Or will the savior of Earth become its greatest cautionary tale?

For ten millennia, the colossal star-vault Rylos has been the isolated domain of the Phoenix Corporation Council, preserving the last remnants of humanity under an ideology of rigid control. Kaelen, an elite Enforcer, is the apex weapon-genetically conditioned and stripped of all emotion-chosen to execute the final, sacred mission: descend to Earth, locate the ancient Genesis Beacon, and transmit the Council's filtered genetic index to begin the new, subservient colony. But Kaelen's descent into the overgrown, radioactive ruins of the Silent City shatters his absolute belief. Aided by Alia, a fierce scavenger who knows the true dangers of the surface, Kaelen discovers the horrific truth: the Council deliberately purged the resilient 60% of humanity's genetic profiles to ensure a future of obedient specialists. Now a traitor, Kaelen races against the clock to find the true, complete genetic index. He must infiltrate the highly-defended Safe Harbor Vault to reprogram the Beacon before Rylos arrives. Kaelen's fight for a real future is complicated by the arrival of Lyra, his former partner and the most lethal Hunter Rylos has ever produced, who is tasked with eliminating him and restoring the Council's perfect, sterile order. Kaelen's final act of defiance is to successfully merge the full genetic registry, forcing the crashing Rylos to launch a diverse, chaotic, and resilient new human future onto the surface, ensuring the species' survival but signing his own death warrant. As the new colony emerges from the wreckage, Kaelen and Alia must become the reluctant guardians of the chaos, preparing for the inevitable war against the surviving, vengeful Council and their ultimate Hunter.

Arianna Galletti has always found clarity in water-the clean slice of a dive, the rhythmic pull of freestyle, the muffled silence of being submerged. As a seventeen-year-old swimmer at George Walton Comprehensive High School, her world revolves around early morning practices with Ace Aquatic Club, the easy banter of teammates who've become family, and the steady presence of her twin sister Brianna. The fall of 2019 unfolds in the comfortable rhythms of school days, Halloween traditions, theatre rehearsals, and the building anticipation of the GHSA State Championship. But woven through these ordinary moments are the threads that will matter most when ordinary ends: friendships forged in chlorine and laughter, the wordless communication between twins, a body trained to move through water, and the instinct to hold your breath when the world goes quiet. June 18, 2020, changes everything. When the Death Angels descend on Atlanta, Arianna learns that survival isn't about strength-it's about silence. As the military crumbles and evacuation boats become the only hope, she must navigate her family through a world where a single sound means death. Their destination: any place where water meets land, where creatures that cannot swim cannot follow. From the chaos of the interstate to the desperate journey toward the coast, from the safety of an island sanctuary to the discovery that silence isn't the only weapon, this is the story of one girl's fight to keep her family alive. It is a story about what water holds-memories, grief, the reflection of who we were and who we must become-and about the current that carries us forward even when everything else falls away. Canon to the John Krasinski A Quiet Place Universe