Keegan is a boy who loves affection. He's usually quite peppy and excitable, but everything in life has turned against him. He ends up locking away his emotions and making himself distant from the world, trying to avoid further suffering. He's left a shell of his former self, struggling to get through life. He decides to take time away from his abusive life by going on a week long school trip to collect his thoughts. He is placed in situations he couldn't have imagined. Theo is a laid back jock. He can come off as aggressive and bossy, usually around his friends, though he has a heart and can be quite kind. His life is hectic and full of annoying people. His parents are inconsiderate, his friends are clingy and loud, and the rest of the school sucks up to him, which he doesn't received well. He just wants to be left alone. After deceiving his clingy friends he snuck away on the school trip, hoping he could finally get some peace and quiet. This trip would hold some surprises for him, and maybe even change his life. What future will await these two? Are they destined for greatness, or despair?

Maren Pines, a shy and sheltered sixteen-year-old girl, is devastated, afraid and most of all alone after losing her parents in the midst of an apocalypse. Fighting for her life to escape the same fate, she meets a tight-knit group of teenagers who would change her life for the better, or for the worse... ♥

They thought it was just another outbreak. They were wrong. Keira never thought all those survival shows she loved would mean anything. Now she's putting every lesson to the test-because whatever's spreading is faster than any virus, and meaner than anything she's seen on screen. The infected don't rot. They mimic. They scream. And they remember. The world didn't end in silence. It ended in screams. After dark.

The end of one world is only the beginning of a new one. [Daryl Dixon]

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]]

(Book 1) In a world where a virus has spread turning most of the population into flesh eating monsters, there are two friends partying it up in New Orleans when the infection hits. Far away from home, they are trapped and trying to make sense of all that has happened with the help of new friends and enemies along the way. Zombies aren't the only thing to fear... Copyright © 2013 by N_D_Iverson All Rights Reserved. (Warning: This is the unedited, raw first draft) **The edited and polished version, with bonus content and a never before seen chapter, is now available on all eBook retailer websites!**

'I turned around and saw a creeper standing directly behind me, tilting his head to take a bite of my neck. It's breath was putrid, their crooked teeth stained orange from the feeding of animals. I grabbed my knife out of my boot and sliced it's throat. It stumbled back and came at me again. I poised the knife in my hand and forced it into its bloodshot eye. Blood pooled out of its socket as it fell to the ground.' Arizona is living in a world of ruin and wreckage in the wake of a zombie apocalypse. It seems there is no hope for having a normal family someday. People she loves are dying left and right and she doesn't know what to do as they are consumed by the virus. Until her life turns around for the better when she encounters somebody in the forest. The world crumbles down around her, will she ever come out of the rubble alive? And with the ones she loves? *EDITING IN PROGRESS* ALL RIGHTS RESERVED!!!!! ALL CHARACTERS AND PLOTS BELONG TO ME!!!

What would you do if you came home to an empty house, stolen car and dead people in your yard? Alex had to learn by herself how to survive, and then she met Beau and Willow. They introduced her to her new family. Join Alex through the quest of survival, and see her love, hate, lie and laugh. 40 chapters I suggest you read now. • Completed •

When you are infected with the virus, there are four stages. 1) Your fever will shoot up and everything will become intensified on a maximum level. You'll lose grip on what's reality and what's illusion. 2) You'll start to slowly fall down the rabbit hole, forgetting the past and everything and everyone that you knew. 3) You face your imminent death. 4) You wake up with a pressing hunger for the living. It's been seven months since the pandemic hit with this virus and the world has been ravaged and left to ruins. Society has crumbled to nothing and more than three fourths of the population have been infected with the mysterious virus that took the world by storm. The virus has turned anyone infected into crazed flesh-eating freaks, with decrepit skin and red puffy eyes. The only way to kill them is by obliterating the brain. Elise Alice Gordon, Lease for short, led a simple life until the virus hit. Seven months later she is just barely scraping by. She's done what she's had to do to survive, and in that process she has created demons that haunt her every time she closes her eyes. See, it hasn't been easy trying to live in a dead world. She's lost friends, family, and everything she's ever known. The only thing she hasn't lost is her humanity and her hope. But she's afraid she's starting to. Because in this new world, there's only her, the dead, and the restless. © 2012 by Ashtyn Mane. All rights reserved.

The day the prison was attacked with walkers, Lori Grimes ran. She fled to the forest and she didn't stop running, determined to get to safety she didn't let anything stop her, not the dead, not nature and not even the contractions. The only thing that stopped the woman from running till her legs collapsed was a trap that left her hanging from a tree in a net. Tessa Alvarez was alone. A child without family or hope, she isolated herself from humanity to save herself from the pain they would inevitably cause. The world had moulded that ten-year-old girl into a monster that shoots first and asks questions later. She no longer trusts the world or the people living in it, so she surrounded her residence with traps, some lethal, some not. So when she discovers a woman in her net already dying from labour, Lori begs the child to save her baby, to cut her open and find her husband. So she does. Tessa Alvarez tore Lori Grimes apart for a baby, a baby that gave her more than she ever expected. the walking dead x found family