Started-10/05/24 "𝑫𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒏' 𝑫𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒏' 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅, 𝒃𝒚 𝒎𝒆." In 1970, the band Velvet were in a rivalry between the new and upcoming band Queen. Amongst the conflict, mainly fueled by their lead guitarist; no one would have guessed that the iconic power couple of Roger Taylor and Felicity Anderson would rise from the ashes of this eruption. ❥" You're not like all the other Groupies, you bought me a drink before you decided you were head over heels." "I'm not a groupie!" "Didn't deny it." "Roger Fucking Taylor." She whispered

At age six, Pullman Grier was abducted by a monster. Held deep underground in the Ontario wilderness, he and four other children laboured for years, scrounging for the creature's food, until the day the impossible happened: Pull slew the monster. Three children crawled out of the cold earth and made the long, bleak trek back to civilization. Now an adult in frozen Winnipeg, Pull scrapes by on a minimum-wage job, a stomach destroyed by childhood malnutrition and a grim sense of humour. The only good thing in his life is an online group that uses image recognition to search for victims of human traffickers and return them home. Then, a local boy vanishes. Unable to find help, the boy's desperate father approaches Pull's group. Only Pull sees the calling card of the monster that took him sixteen years prior. The monster that is supposedly lying dead and buried in the Canadian wilderness. Knowing the thing that stole his childhood could still be abducting children and that more will be taken if he fails, Pull scours secrets buried in his old prison. Secrets that have lurked in the darkness just beyond the firelight for all of human history.

§|Of Poison And Flowers|§ ====================================== "I could kill you and leave your body in an unmarked grave." His voice was steady and didn't really hold anything of emotion, and looking up, his heterochromic blue eyes seemed just as freezing. And at the same time, he wasn't hurting me, when he very easily could've. And so I knew he was bluffing. "Are you going to?" And his silence was enough confirmation when he released my wrist. ====== When Azalea finds a man bleeding out inside of a warehouse, she never thought that helping him could kickstart a different kind of adventure; love. ======

It's been ten years since the fall of humanity. I was only ten years old when the zombies took over. The military told us to flee underground, explaining that it was safer. The zombies are smart, too smart. They can learn to hide themselves. Some of them disguise themselves to look like normal people. We tell them apart by checking their eyes. Zombies have enlarged pupils compared to humans. Achievements: 🏆 3rd place in The Flames Awards Sci-Fi category 🏆3rd place in The Slayer Book Awards 🏆3rd place in The Siren's Curse Awards @ScienceFiction added The Dead Walk Among Us to their Viruses & Zombies reading list. Best Rankings: #1 out of 113 in the tag end of days #8 out of 1,000+ stories in the tag end of the world