When a deadly plague spreads like wildfire, 17-year-old Bren Watts is trapped at Ground Zero of a global pandemic. ---- Bren and his classmates are stranded in New York City, now filled with thousands of murderous infected and desperate survivors. Forced into an unlikely alliance with his school bully and former friend, Logan Hardy, the two boys must find a way back home, traversing through the ravaged landscape of the United States. With their odds stacked against them, Bren has no choice but to use the skills taught by his ex-Navy SEALs father to fight and survive. But the path ahead is bloodied and broken, and if he wants to reunite with his family, Bren must tap into his darkest heart for not only the infected are capable of hatred and violence. The Bren Watts Diaries tells a dark and gritty account of the end, all narrated in the survivor's own voice as a first-hand witness to humanity's end. The story will cover the first year of the Apocalypse, depicting the beginnings of the disease, society's war against the pandemic, and the eventual collapse of civilization. [[Current word count: 450,000 - 500,000 words]] ----- The series portrays an LGBTQ+ protagonist and numerous other characters. Violence, like any medium of zombie stories, is described in detail.

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]]

The living are going to die, and the dead were to remain dead: that was the truth Jason Rosendale had always known. He never expected that one day the dead would rise up again -yet again, no one did. In the land between life and death, surviving -not living- became the top priority. With his father dead, and the unstable young man who killed him showing up again, Jason is constantly kept on his toes. He had to; he knows he has to stay strong for his little sister. Trying to stay sane, he slowly began to accept his reality. He began to understand the dull, moribund world around him: embracing death and all its wonders. Highest ranking #2 #zombieoutbreak 8th August 2018

Normal life if for the mundane. You don't learn this, until you lose it. Darkeness can descend quickly in a storybook world, and even quicker in the real one. Darkeness comes on in the time of disease. As the flu sweeps nations, changes begin in the population. People change and life changes. Everything that people consider given, written in stone, is thrown upon its end. And the fight for survival begins... Zombies walk the earth, only they have no need to infect you, only to eat you. They are the top of the food chain. And in order to survive, you have to outhink the undead and create another breed of humanity, a millenia in the making. No fear. Or they will find you.

Seventeen-year-old Spencer has been waiting for this for a while now. Ever since he started watching a new TV show, he has been wanting an apocalypse to happen. Just to give his life a little more 'umph'. He and his family have different ways of wanting to deal with this situation. Spencer thinks that they should gather supplies before everything is taken or things turn worse. His family think they should stay locked up in their house, believing that everything will blow over in a few days. Everyone is scared of what is to come next. How do you think Spencer and his family will survive?

Something has been happening on the outside of the United States for months now, and that something is terrifying. Nobody knows what the virus is that spread all around the globe, and listening to their government, Americans weren't worried about it coming to their own country. But they were wrong, and now it has quickly spread from the East Coast to the West. Alden Hale and Finn Foster are two unlucky college students who are forced to work together in order to survive. Can two people who just met truly trust each other? Will they be able to survive the ravaging? Cover by brookmcx

***CONTAINS SPOILERS TO PREVIOUS BOOK! READ CONSUMED FIRST!*** **This story has been discontinued** After the loss of his boyfriend, Creston struggles to get a hold of himself. But when he's finally able to somewhat get a grip on the reality that his lover is dead, people from his past start to show up in his new life to make it a living hell. It seems as though Creston's life is spiraling out of control, but will he be able to pull himself together in time to save not only his family and friends... but himself? Or will everyone he loves become consumed? ------------------------------- #263 in Horror 11/24/16 -------------------------------

**WARNING CONTAINS BXB** (Completed) Everything was a vision of ash and soot, fires blazing here and there... through tired eyes I stood weary, gazing upon my house roaring with deep orange flames. My only driving-force is to find something... an anti-virus. My enemy and I have been selected to test out a new drug only... it went wrong. And now my enemy and I are fighting for our survival as we enter a zombie apocalypse. Wesley and Noah have been enemies for years until something scary happens to them, it starts out in their school. Zombies start appearing, most have ignored the warning signs, but now it's here. An Crazy-Evil scientist name DR.Finlay captures the two and start experimenting on them. With all that's happening will Noah and Wesley still hate each other or will they fall in love. Read and find out. *This is an old story I coauthored with someone I met online, she lived in Europe so our writing styles might be different. I haven't heard from her in years but she had told me I could play around with our works. Thank you for reading