Spanning 3 years, 23 countries, 45 cities, 31 flights, 15 bus rides, 5 ferry rides, and 9 train rides, this is the story of what happens when you learn you're never too old to run away.
What's a girl gotta do around here to survive the apocalypse?
The grown-ups are all gone and children rule the new world. Harry lives in a strange utopia: resources are plentiful, the climate has stabilised, there is peace. His village is watched over by an invisible force that keeps them all from danger - but is it protecting them, or holding them back? Join Harry and his frien...
After it all happened, the Plague created what feels like a whole new world. Survivors created new lives for themselves and carried on with their lives. Me? I didn't get the chance to create a new life. Thanks to my absolutely wonderful father figure, I was forced to become an entirely different person. Thankfully I w...
The world ended, half burned away by a sun split in two and the other destroyed by nuclear war. Rue was born the day this happened, an abomination born in a lab, but her life is only beginning at sixteen. She is stepping out of her home to meet a whole new world... For those Rue meets it is both a familiar world and a...
(not edited) "Don't talk to strangers." Everyone says. It's simple. Considering a zombie apocalypse wiped out the entire world in two weeks and now there's no one left to talk too but yourself! Elle McBriar has been on her own for the last three months. Despite never stabbing, punching, hitting, kicking, shooting or...
The war that everyone had been dreading has finally come to pass. It had effectively destroyed the land. Those that had died were lucky. The ones who survived were slowly being transformed by the radiation that blanketed the world. Thousands of years passed and the memory of what had happened began to fade and pe...
Following the extermination, Emry has the whole of Earth to himself. No one is left to fight, and nothing is left to fight for. The whole world is literally at his feet. As is a paper plane...that he didn't throw.
As a viral plague sweeps across the globe killing billions in it's wake a young college girl is left alone. The sole survivor in the town of Bangor, Maine. She's lost everyone she's ever loved to the virus. Her only companion left being her loyal shepherd Bruno. Despite wishing she could have left this world like...
Kai Gilling, a transgender wanderer traversing the American West, has to trek hundreds of miles in his beat up Jeep, in order to reach an urban legend rumored to be the only settlement still thriving. *********** It's a Wasteland, baby. In the uncomfortably not-so-distant future, the world has been ravaged by natural...
I have been abandoned in a stark landscape. I have no idea who I am or why I've been cast out. My only protection is a Ruger double-action revolver. I discover if I can make it through the no-man's-land alive, I might have a chance at amnesty. All I have to do is trek the two-hundred-and-fifty miles north through deso...
Three people, completely unrelated. Eric-434, I-111502, Oliver-4, and Mathew Raynott. They all live in what used to be known as the "Americas" and now it is known as The Isolone. Eric is in the Commoner Elite, I-111502 belongs to the Military Elite, Oliver-4 belongs to the Undesired Elite, and Mathew is part of the...
"Welcome, we thank you for spending your night with us. We promise you, that this will be a party you will never forget!" Forget your troubles, prepare your payment, and welcome to The White Top Circus! ~*~ Twenty years after the East continents declared nuclear war to the West, the world regressed to their old patte...
An extraordinarily lucky man is blasted into space and killed in a freak accident, only to be revived nine apocalypses later to find himself one half of the last remnants of humanity. Now he and a woman from this strange future must travel through time in order to escape from an intergalactic zoo run by shapeshifting...
Eden has never seen a zoo before. In her world, zoos don't exist. The Anthros do. Anthros are 'human zoos' created by the machines that have taken over Earth, pushing humans into being critically endangered. Humans are hunted for their desirable qualities and put behind the 20mm thick glass for other cybernetic orga...
The Walten Institute for the Psychologically Disturbed is known throughout history for its inhumane treatment of patients. On the fiftieth anniversary of its closing, one of our journalists was given the chance to sit down with one of the remaining patients from the institute. Felicity recounts her own experience as w...
"Ever heard of Sun Tzu?" She asked, eyeing him carefully. He looked up, thought for a moment before replying. "Yes. He was the guy that wrote 'Sun Tzu's Art Of War wasn't he?" The girl smiled. "Well yes, that's correct. But screw him, he knows nothing about war. If there was anyone who did, it's me. And I'm gonna let...
The world is coming to an end. If you aren't dead, there is no guarantee for your survival. Shaun knows this but he has a family to protect. He knows they might not live but what other choice does he have but to keep going? Would you able to keep moving if all hope was gone? Would you be able to stay alive when everyo...
[PREVIEW ONLY] No one knows the real identity of the hospital's Plague Saint is sixteen-year-old Winter Pierce. No one knows she's a fraud. And no one knows she's a killer. While floods and heat waves devastate the southern lands, the northern cities face blizzards and plagues. Up until two weeks ago, the Plague Saint...
Forged In Fire is the true story of a young girl's childhood in pre-WW II Tokyo; her schoolgirl dreams; the violence, starvation and desperation of wartime that drove her family out of the city; and the American Occupation that shaped Japan's future. It is the story of my mother, Rita (then named Tomoko), who was ten...
A pair of siblings on a dangerous journey. A vicious spirit quickly drawing near. A bedtime story filled with peril and magic, loss and self discovery, set within a dark, fantastical forest. Growing up with frightening tales of the woods around them, Credence and her younger brother Josiah never imagined they would v...
Violent disasters rage across America and society collapses. The living fight against the clutches of natural disasters and disease in a post-apocalyptic world. A militaristic group gathers survivors by any means to rebuild a functional society with the shards of the last, but its intentions are not as they seem. Surv...
She woke up on the 999th floor of the Skyworld's richest tower to luxury, affection, and the perfect life. The problem is that Sasha - if that is really her name - can't remember if any of it is real. Vaughn Scio, the powerful regent who claims to be her lover, is certainly hiding something. (a dark dystopian love sto...
Eight levels which signify your class. After a nuclear war breaks out across the world, a group of scientists create a facility under ground. While it keeps a select number of few safe, 150 years later, the facility has increasingly become overcrowded and the need for expansion shows to be detrimental. Eight people f...
This novella was a Hugo and Nebula nominee twenty years ago. I lost both to Charles Sheffield -- whom I married five years later. Life sometimes really is just as strange as fiction.
Some fates are worse than death--survival is one of them. In the two hundred years since humanity left the Earth's surface to live in the sky, life on the ground faded to a myth, a tragic memory from which they severed themselves to survive. They floated above continents turned to sand and lands swallowed by the seas...
Tim, a garbage handler in a post-apocalyptic bunker, loses the little he has. But then he finds Amy, the redhead with an attitude. Together, they will try to change the world they live in. -- Tim is one of those who shovel the shit and clean away the waste. Life in the dirt of others is all he knows. When his father g...
The blinding flash came first, so intense that it blinded even through closed eyes. The deafening thunder followed very shortly after, as the burning light began to subside. The cloud appeared as a silhouette at first against the whiteout, but as the sky returned to normal colour the iconic mushroom could be seen r...
Her name is Blank. She was a military spy bot... until she stole a reconnaissance shuttle and left Earth. On the run and in search of freedom, she must reconcile that her once human mind is now the solar government's property so long as she's in this artificial body. According to them, they own her and are on the hunt...