* COMPLETED & being REWRITTEN for publishing * Kodi has been locked away in her house since the whole apocalypse started. The thing is she's not sure whether the monster within the house is any better than the ones who've begun to take over the world one corpse at a time. Of course, how was she supposed to know the day the world ended was the same day her life would begin? #1 in Adventure #1 in Zombie

After escaping a stalled elevator into a zombie apocalypse, Emily must learn how to trust people again or risk losing everything in this terrifying world. ***** For Emily, every day of the last two years have been a blur. She keeps her head down, takes her college courses online, and only goes out to work at her mandatory internship. But all that changes on the day the office elevator breaks down, leaving her trapped when the screams begin. And when the doors finally open, revealing a dystopian world ruined by bloody teeth and disease, Emily is launched into a terrifying run for her life, caught between the strangers she's not sure she can trust and the man-eating monsters that hunger for her flesh. Now she must learn not only how to survive in this new and dangerous world, but also how to overcome her own inner demons before they cost her something more precious than her life. [[Wattys' Shortlist]] [[Promoted by AMC]] Content and/or Trigger Warning: The story contains some gore, violence, strong language, and dark themes. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

I was brought into this world alone; I'll leave it just the same... How to be a survivor was all Willow knew how to be, having been cast out on her own as a young teen with no family, she knew how to take care of herself. So when the real world collapsed around her she adapted quickly. Ending up in Atlanta months later wasn't part of the plan but she was sick, really sick, she needed medicine and she wasn't going to find that kind of stuff just anywhere. But what she did find was a group of people, stupid people who were most likely to get her killed, but she hated to admit they were growing on her. Whether she stuck around though depended on just how much attitude she could handle from that damn redneck Daryl Dixon, and secrets that just break her. If her haunting past doesn't get to her first... ~~~Daryl Dixon fanfiction~~~ This story is being heavily edited! 06/26/23