||ONC 2025 Short List || The 2000s. The zombie apocalypse has pushed humanity to the brink of extinction. There is no vaccine, hope is fading, and the only way to survive is to kill. But what if you're on the wrong side? What if, instead of fighting the infected, you've become one of them? Amanda Reed refuses to go down without a fight. Trapped in a subway car with a group of strangers, she quickly realizes they all share one terrifying trait-they're infected, yet still human. Surviving, finding a cure, and hiding from the uninfected, who won't stop to ask questions before pulling the trigger... A daunting task for a former journalism student. Is there an escape when all hope seems lost? The countdown has begun. Prompt: 63. A group of humans infected with the zombie virus must protect themselves from zombie hunters while racing to find a cure before it's too late.

Till death brings us together. When Rebecca wakes up in a dug grave, all she remembers is her name. Her only clue in a vaguely familiar world is a pathologist named Vincent Mohr, who has a dark past. The girl must remember who she is, learn more about the mysterious doctor, and keep from going mad in a haunted house where nothing is as simple as it seems.