Decay Stories

Some frequencies are meant to remain dead air. It is October 1998, and Arlo Banks is suffocating in a purgatory of yellowed plastic, stale marijuana smoke, and the claustrophobic sub-basements of Channel 8. As a night-shift archival assistant and a functional burnout, Arlo escapes his mundane reality by abusing heavy strains of marijuana and diving deep into early internet lore and urban legends. When his passive-aggressive manager writes him up for unauthorized napping, Arlo retaliates by raiding a condemned sub-basement and stealing a sealed box of VHS tapes. He hopes to unearth a profitable piece of lost media to boost his reputation on the message boards. Instead, he brings home a biological puppet. The tapes contain The Happy Hollows, a rumored "Holy Grail" of lost media. But the broadcast does not stay on the screen. The footage begins to mimic Arlo's reality on a delay-a delay that is rapidly shortening. Arlo initially relies on the "Stoner Defense," rationalizing the bizarre events as weed-induced paranoia, hallucinations, or an elaborate prank. But the physical world begins to rot. His environment mutates into a tactile nightmare of "Damp Plush". Glass softens into gelatin , blood thickens into strawberry preserves , and human flesh takes on the texture of distressed velvet. Hunted through infinitely stretching hallways by a towering mascot named Uncle Corduroy and a swarm of Clay-Kin, Arlo must navigate the collapsing boundary between reality and the broadcast. He has to sever the signal before the frequency overtakes him entirely, transforming his own anatomy into polyester stuffing and rusted wire.

When Josh Reynolds stumbles upon a stranger, he is introduced to new hope. Welcomed in to a small compound safe from the Teeth and surrounded by people, he learns he is not alone. Being on the road for so long, he was convinced he was the last of the human race; the sole survivor. With this unlikely group, he must continue to fight against the new world. He will make new friends, enemies and face challenges he could never have imagined before. Who will survive? All will face great peril, but who will survive the turmoil? "This is an outstanding book and I'm so in love with it, I can't even. I hope you never give up writing, because you're seriously a true talent and the writing world would be lost without you" "This is a well written story. Good idea and excellently written. Deserves way more reads" "One of the best I've seen on here so far" Highest rank #71 Science Fiction

À Londres, à la fin du XIXᵉ siècle, Elmer Ells mène une existence enviable. Pourtant, une rencontre inattendue avec une femme mystérieuse vient troubler l'équilibre de sa vie. Peu après, un étrange personnage nommé Gwanli lui propose un marché qui pourrait bien changer son destin. Dans ce roman mêlant introspection, désir et tentation, Innuendo explore la fragilité de l'âme humaine et les conséquences de nos choix.

This story takes place in the aftermath after the parent lost their child

Cracked and shattered by life, with feelings everywhere and yet nowhere at once, Sylvian drifts through the world contemplating the purpose of his existence - wondering if he's ever truly lived. Haunted by flaws, regrets, and inner demons, he questions whether he can ever turn those cracks into something beautiful again.

An old man trapped in his apartment is haunted by a stalker. He decides to take matters into his own hands, before he is driven mad.

You don't die until you decay. Middle school life gets weird when a girl is suddenly in a world where you aren't dead until you're literally nothing.

When a railway project in Sicily exposes an ancient mass grave of foreign warriors, the earth awakens, and the long-dead mercenaries of Himera begin their march beneath the rising sun.

Look at the little things in life to see what's really there

It all started in the city of Halifax. My home town. Six people were rushed to the hospital with a virus nobody had ever seen before. One of the attending nurses got bit by a patient, starting a chain reaction- a domino effect. Now, three months later, myself and a group of other survivors are on the run from the aftermath. I've killed more zombies than I could ever count, and I don't intend to stop until this is all over.

As the title suggests these are poems of my emotions. Some are sad, while others are happy or just neutral. I write them whenever I get an idea, and my ideas are influenced by my mood. Though not always. I like the more dark and gloomy poems so just because I have a lot of sad or gloomy poems doesn't mean I am depressed all the time. But anyway hope you guys enjoy them, and please don't copy them, if you would like to use them somewhere please ask my permission first. If I find that anyone is stealing my works I will remove them from wattpad, this includes my other books.

An aging cowboy discovers an ancient Egyptian tomb buried beneath desert sands, unleashing a cursed force that claims him and leaves only his hat - and a new mummy - behind.

Izuku or Deku is a boy who always wanted to be a hero on his 4th birthday he and his mother went to the quirk doctor to know what Deku's quirk would be, unfortunately Deku's quirk was to dangerous to even consider being a hero and seen down on as villainous, this caused Deku's mother and father to resent him and kick him out only at the age of 5. With no food and place to go Deku lived on the streets for months barely surviving that was until he met the pro hero Eraser Head who took him to UA where he would stay.

Have you ever imagined what it would be like during a zombie apocalypse, perhaps you've read about it, or watched a show, but really, are you truly prepared for the worst? In this book I will share some main things you MUST know in order to survive, only with the help of daily based items or very easily accessible ones. You will learn how to wrap and binds broken limbs, to take care of cuts, and other first aid procedures for emergencies. I will make a list of all the necessities and what you should do in certain situations, and everything to ever be know about zombies that will help. So join me on this hell long of a ride, and learn everything you need to not just survive, but thrive... #15 in livingdead 6/13/2021 DISCLAIMER: IN CASE OF A MEDICAL EMERGENCY, GET HELP IMMEDIATELY. ALL MEDICAL INFORMATION IS TO ONLY BE USED IN EXTREME EMERGENCIES WHERE PROFESSIONAL HELP CANNOT BE PROVIDED. ALL INFORMATION IS ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR'S BEST KNOWLEDGE, AND ANY GUIDE FOLLOWED SHALL BE FOLLOWED AT THE READER'S OWN RESPONSIBILITY.

They do not know what beauty had made landfall on rotting ground, neither does the stranger, all they know is it radiates with questions.

They say the void was born hungry. A hollow thing that devours light, laughter, and the warmth of living souls. When a fragment of that darkness fell upon a carnival, it found something it had never known before-color, music, joy. It reached out like a child touching flame... and the flame burned back. Now, The Wake returns every year, a traveling festival that blooms at twilight and dies with the dawn. By day, it dazzles with color and song. By night, it feeds. The workers smile because they must. The calliope plays because it cannot stop. And when the drums begin to thunder, the void itself opens its eyes. Those who stay past sunrise are never seen again-only heard, in the laughter that keeps the void dreaming. Step right up, traveler. The show is about to begin. And once you've entered The Wake, there's no leaving the tent before the dawn.

{ de·tach·ment } dəˈtaCHmənt/ noun 1. to distance oneself from future stressful situations by maintaining emotional distance from others. --- Tessa Gunn is used to running away. Never get attached, she whispers to herself on a daily basis. Now, she lives in one of the worst neighbourhoods of Vancouver by herself, where crime and poverty is the absolute everyday norm. Her life manly consists of drinking until she passes out at a notoriously-known bar, where she meets and has one-night stands with other men. One night, she meets a mysterious man with a dark broken gaze and a mind full of secrets he won't share. But this man she meets makes her change her mind about everything she's ever known. For all of these years, she's been in pain and suffering and she's been detached from anyone, but does she still want that?

A stone grave holds a corpse unnaturally preserved and claw-marked, sealed with a strange vessel, but the earth trembles as if the dead within is struggling to rise again.

It was all his fault. If he hadn't stolen those things, perhaps we would have all been nice to him; but something inside me felt...guilty. And that wasn't a good sign. We aren't allowed to feel anything, which is why he became such an outcast. But he discovered something-false, he created something. Something that has only been done by God.

In 2011 The Second Chance cure is administered to people affected by The Angel Strain. TSC is thought to have been the cure for it, but the researchers were wrong. Now, a majority of the population is one of "The Cured", perpetually searching for the one thing to end their hunger. Human flesh. One of the few people left is 16 year old Haven, and shes not going down without a fight.