Post-apocalyptic Stories

The world did not end in an instant. It ended slowly-quietly-like something dying while still pretending to live. Serein Valdez learned to survive in that silence. Not because she was strong, but because she paid attention to things other people ignored. She learned how to move through ruined cities, how to avoid danger before it showed itself, and how to stay invisible long enough to live another day. She never planned to get involved with anyone. Especially not him. Leviandro Solenne is the kind of man who survives without asking permission from the world. Former military. Controlled. Detached. A man who moves like every decision has already been made long before it happens. When Serein finds him surrounded in the ruins-outnumbered, cornered, seconds away from death-she knows she should walk away. She doesn't. That single moment binds them in a world that punishes mistakes and calls attachment a weakness. He doesn't trust her. She shouldn't have saved him. But in a place where survival is no longer about strength alone, but about choice, instinct, and consequence- leaving each other becomes harder than surviving the world itself. And when the quiet finally ends, what's left behind is not just destruction. But the things they were never supposed to feel.

When a deadly disease ravages the town of Holmsley, Frankie and her friends find themselves trapped inside a military-blockaded quarantine zone. ***** A story that was first published in 2014 and feels more relevant than ever. Fifteen-year-old Frankie and her friends must find their way out of quarantine if they want to survive. As the body count rises, Frankie realizes that this is no ordinary quarantine and no one is coming to help. Once infected, the sick become crazed and violent, while fear turns other survivors to savages. And who or what are the mysterious figures Frankie keeps seeing around town? It seems she'll have to unravel the dark truth behind it all if she wants to get out alive... Content and/or trigger warning: This story describes disease outbreaks and contains scenes of violence, which may be triggering for some readers. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

In the midst of a desperate battle against the powerful Ascendant Vonnegut, Commandant Kiruka of the elite Gray Raven squad is suddenly thrown through a dimensional rift and into a completely different world - the war-torn Earth of Goddess of Victory: Nikke. Stranded in a reality where humanity hides underground in the Ark while fighting the mechanical invaders known as Raptures, Kiruka must adapt quickly. With no way back to his squad or his own dying world plagued by the far more insidious Punishing Virus, he is forced to cooperate with the Ark's forces. His overwhelming combat prowess - blending a reality-cutting crimson katana, dual energy pistols, collapsible energy bow, and advanced martial arts - quickly catches the attention of Commander Renji and the Counters squad. As Kiruka proves his worth on the battlefield, he begins forming bonds with the Nikkes, especially the strict yet easily flustered tsundere Privaty. However, the secrets of his world cannot stay hidden forever. When Kiruka finally reveals the horrifying truth about the Punishing Virus - a corruption that doesn't just destroy, but replaces and turns allies into monsters - the Ark's leadership, including the enigmatic Deputy Chief Anderson, is forced to confront a threat potentially far greater than the Raptures. Now, as Kiruka trains alongside multiple Nikke squads and clashes with the dangerous Heretic Modernia, two apocalyptic wars edge closer to colliding. With his Gray Raven squad still fighting without him back home, and the shadow of Vonnegut looming across dimensions, Kiruka must decide how far he will go to protect this new world... before the Punishing Virus finds a way to follow him. A crossover story of survival, trust, and war between two broken worlds. Will Kiruka's strength be enough to change the fate of both realities?

Young cadet Lara Lorensky has one goal: to win the Selection, the only way people on Earth can ascend to NovaTopia, a utopia-like space shuttle orbiting the planet. Unfortunately, her longtime rival, Morgan Sánchez, also has the same goal--and their almost undefeated record in practices is Lara's biggest obstacle to victory. When an unexpected terrorist attack destroys Morgan's cyber arm, Lara's chances to win are significantly increased. But... what is the point of winning if her rival is not in their top condition? Plagued by guilt and a feeling she does not quite understand yet, Lara decides to help Morgan find a cyberlimb mechanic. As she ventures outside her sheltered bubble, Lara realizes that everything she was taught was a lie, including her identity. Perhaps the utopia she was fighting for all her life was also an illusion. Together, Lara and Morgan have a new goal: to find out the truth of Lara's identity--and the truth behind NovaTopia. {Part I COMPLETED! Currently posting Part II every Thursday!} *** - 'The Hunger Games' X 'Arcane' X 'Fallout' - Queer rivals to lovers - Non-binary cyborg love interest - Cyberpunk earth vs Utopian space Current word count: 57,000 words Planned word count to hit: 120,000 words Beautiful cover by @yadsdom on Fiverr

•••• "God, I have my father's eyes- but my sister's when I cry. I can run, but I can't hide from my family line." •••• Cara Miller left the community that she had helped her uncle and aunt build from the ground up- in the name of finding a missing friend in the ruins of the old world. She soon comes to the realization that she had bit off far more than she could chew, when she is suddenly thrown into a battle that she never should have been a part of. Love, sacrifice, selfishness and loss are the only things that she finds on her quest across the country after she reunites with her estranged father while he smuggles an immune thirteen-year-old girl across the country, in the name of finding a cure that could save whatever was left of the crumbled world. •••• LOVE INTEREST(S): Henry Burrell x oc, Oc x Manny Alvarez Oc x Jesse SEASONS: 1- EPISODES COMPLETE: 1 (not following Joel and Ellie in 1-4 tho!!) CHAPTERS COMPLETE: 7 SEASONS COMPLETE: 0 IDEA: March 2nd 2023 STARTED: April 28th 2025 PUBLISHED: May 24th 2025 FINISHED: 🚧 WRITING STATUS: ongoing.

The seasoned player of "Abyss of Stars," the [Starfall Master] Li Zi, brings a system template and travels to the game's world, arriving in the era of the game's beta version. This is the worst of times. The cosmic forces and conglomerates collude, causing the doors to the universe to be closed, the planet's resources to be exhausted, and even sunlight to be monopolized. This is also the best of times. All the extraordinary systems are just beginning. In this era, he is the only [Starfall Master] with the final version patch. While people are enthralled by the smoke of plasma guns and cannons, Li Zi has already torn apart battleships with gravity. While superhumans are smug about their awakened abilities, moonlight has already become Li Zi's servant. While the interstellar fleet crosses the Milky Way, Li Zi has just ignited the forty-second star, illuminating the entire universe. "People have been trapped on the ground for too long; they've forgotten that this starry sky should belong to all of us." -Facing the unspeakable aboriginal evil gods, Li Zi, holding a black hole, gently said. Patreon link for those interested: https://www.patreon.com/FALCON_N

May, 2023 In 2023, scientists around the world gathered to study a strange virus discovered in African wildlife. It was unlike anything seen before - it dulled every sense except hunger, leaving its hosts in a constant state of exhaustion and aggression, resembling rabies but far more unpredictable. Within months, a vaccine was developed using powerful cell-boosting compounds designed to eliminate the virus and push the immune system beyond its limits. The first test was conducted on a rat. It was the last test they ever ran. Instead of healing the infected cells, the vaccine accelerated the virus at an alarming rate - within minutes the animal lost all control, driven by insatiable hunger and complete loss of reason. The virus had reached the brain. The project was immediately shut down, the specimen sealed in a sub-zero containment unit, and the truth buried deep within classified files. October, 2028 Five years passed. The laboratory sat abandoned and forgotten - until an earthquake cracked its walls open. Parasites and microorganisms escaped the containment unit, carrying the virus silently into the outside world. No alarms. No warnings. No time to prepare.

The year is 2085. It has been 45 years since the world descended into a full-on nuclear war, an event also known as the Unhappening. Countries no longer exist. Instead, in this setting, the Wasteland, which was once Eastern Europe, is riddled with factions inspired by real life extremist groups, each clinging to their own perverted and degenerate creed, hence the title of this book. Our protagonist, Alex, and his gang of non-conformists must learn to survive in this new environment. Will he be successful?

The Universe is dying. Atoms are falling apart. Daryen and Hailey, engineers of the Horizon, must ferry a small team across dead planets to gather the last resources needed for a desperate, impossible plan: Escape the Universe.

A saga begins not with hope... but with extinction. Humanity ended three times. By the aftermath of the Third War, Earth was nothing more than a silent graveyard- a irradiated blue ghost drifting through space. The survivors, shattered into twelve isolated Clans, lived in poverty, ignorance, and fear... until the day the Empire arrived. The Talvegan Starship Datrok, commanded by Herdron Zullikus under the orders of Emperor Karelffar Arthrender, reaches the ruined solar system with a single proposition: rebirth in exchange for absolute loyalty. Advanced technology, healed lands, food, medicine, a place among the stars- all of it offered to a species that had destroyed itself. But the price is steep: the Clans must swear eternal peace among themselves and submit fully to Talvegan rule. In the decaying Dresden Palace, the twelve leaders agree. They call it The Alliance. Centuries pass. The Alliance thrives-too much. Now a rising galactic power, it rules through strict segregation, militarization, and harsh colonial expansion. Beneath its shining fleets and magnificent worlds lies a darker truth. As conspiracies spread and threats gather across the galaxy, the descendants of Earth's saviors must confront a horrifying question: Can a civilization built on the ashes of its own sins survive the weight of its legacy? A sweeping sci-fi epic of empires, moral decay, and the fragile line between salvation and domination.

Sheep, a young kit, learns the hard way that life isn't kind. One day, he wakes to find the farm silent-empty. With no one left to guide him, he must navigate a world overrun by strange, nightmarish creatures lurking beyond the fields. Alongside his sister Blight, Sheep will uncover secrets about the infection sweeping the land, the mysterious 'Watchers' who guard the woods, and the truth about what really happened to those he loved. Survival is only the beginning... because something far worse is coming.

Underneath the toxic flower, Florterrain, is a city. A city hiding underground, away from the pollen. When Kit and Veronica get assigned to elevator duty, they find something unusual. Dangerous.

"Civilization has nearly fallen as Blood Storms swept through major cities, monsters of the bloody shadow followed in the storm and killed all that got in their way. Cities are massacred and the storms rage across the planet." It is a two hundred years later and the world has slowly recovered. The might Blood Storm that once covered the entire planet has fractured into thousands of smaller Storms around the world. The countryside is constantly ravaged by Blood Storms, no one goes in them unless they want to travel to another city. Unlike the countryside, cities have a chance to rebuild but mistrust and violence over resources have made it hard for them to come back together. Totalitarian groups formed from old military remnants, promising to save the world but secretly want it to stay fractured just for their own gain of power in the seat. Groups formed outside these cities, fighting for survival, Raiders attack in the night and melee becomes the new combat norm. Storm Sickness ravages large populations. They are discriminated against and hated against, considered a different race other than humans. Sanctuaries formed to protect the sick. The Kreed sit as the only group that can stop the Rymar's advance against the Sick. And in all of this mayhem, murder, chaos and misery, Kade Malken and Rovan Kreesh's stories shall unfold.

The history contained herein came into my possession by chance, though I am no longer persuaded that chance governs such things. Its pages, much worn and in places difficult to recover, recount the life of one who lived in the long shadow of the old war, when the earth was cold, the nations broken, and memory itself had begun to fail. If the tale appears grave, it is because it was born in a grave age. If it seems slow to speak, it is because silence was then the common lot of men. I offer it now only as it was offered to me: as the remembrance of a life not wholly consumed by the darkness into which it was cast. That is all I shall say before surrendering him to the reader. The world ended slowly. Now what remains is hunted. Deep in the frozen wilds of North America, a veteran of the last great war lives alone with their dog, keeping faith in a world that has nearly forgotten God. But when something unexpected is brought to their door, the silence of life is broken, and the past begins to stir. Forced back onto the road, into the ruins, into memory, and into the mercy he thought he had buried with the dead. What begins as an act of duty becomes a journey through the bones of a dead civilization. Saint Among Sinners, Sinner Among Saints is a grim and reverent tale of survival, memory, and the faint light that remains when all else has failed.

This is just a fun project I just wanna work on while I'm blank on ideas for my other stories. This'll be short, maybe 10 chapters, probably less. This is gonna be heavily based off of the Fallout games, most notably Fallout 2, and a tiny little bit of Dune. This won't be a Reader story, the main character has a name. Oh, and I'll be crossposting this to AO3 if this does well, because I'm GREEDY and I LOVE BEING AN EVIL PERSON HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. More info in the opening chapter.

The world didn't end with fire. It ended with a thought that wasn't yours. Governments turned psychology into warfare and lost control of what they built. The buildings are still standing. The sky just hasn't shown the sun in years. What collapsed was trust - the ability to agree on what is real. He has no name. He drifts through dead zones carrying packages he doesn't ask about and reaching conclusions he acts on quietly. When a routine job exposes something in his mind that doesn't feel like his own thought, he begins following a thread eastward - through a community surviving on a beautiful lie, through records that should not exist, toward the person who chose to end the world and is now offering to fix it. The further he goes the less certain he becomes of what is real, what is his, and what the warfare left behind in him. Each chapter opens with a question. None of them get answered.

𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞: (please read) This story is an original work inspired by themes and aesthetics from the Splatoon universe. It does not include any official Splatoon characters that I will introduce in the next book I plan to write. This fan-inspired project is created purely for entertainment and sets the stage for a connected trilogy for Splatoon. Echoes of Freedom - Origin Files begins not with ruins, but with revelation. This is a character-driven journey-Axel is his own person, with a mind shattered by war and choices only he can make. This is the story of Axel. The survivor. The one who remembers everything for now. You know, Most tales begin with someone waking up in a world already changed and being their new life. But not this one. Earth, 12,000 years later, after the flood, the new world belonged to creatures called Inklings & Octarians. Color is warfare. They battle across the cities, never questioning what sleeps below. But this story begins long before the oceans rose, before the skies split. Before humanity fell beneath its own ambition. Memory has roots. Truth doesn't stay buried forever. So let's go back 12,000 years before history was rewritten, where Axel had a choice, and he was ready to watch the world fall, even if it cost him everything. This isn't the aftermath. This is the origin.

What would you do if you woke up in a dead world- and someone started knocking at your door? Nova Quinn has survived alone for nearly four years. No people. No voices. No signs of life. Just a ruined city, a journal full of days, and four silent crows watching from a wire. She's the last one left... or so she thought. One morning, there's a knock on her door. No footsteps. No faces. Just a voice-whispering her name. A name no one should know. Now, the silence isn't safe anymore. As Nova begins to unravel the mystery behind the knock, she discovers footprints where no one has walked, reflections that move on their own, and journal entries she never wrote. Someone-or something-is watching her... and it remembers the world differently than she does. The deeper she digs, the more the rules of reality twist. And behind it all waits a final door, knocking from both sides.

The dead rose. The world burned. One ship refused to follow orders. When the Wildfire virus sweeps the planet, the USS Donald Cook, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, is on routine patrol in the Atlantic. Her crew expects to enforce quarantine. Instead, they receive Operation Cobalt: abandon all civilians and napalm the American coast. Captain Elias Koroma makes a choice that brands him a mutineer. He turns the Cook into a floating sanctuary, rescuing survivors from the very cities the military is torching. But survival at sea means rationing, hard decisions, and the ever-present threat of the infected-both the walking dead and the living who still cling to the old world's cruelty. When a rogue admiral declares the Cook a hostile target, the crew must fight a war on two fronts: against the dead that wash ashore, and against the living who would burn them all again. They are not a weapon. They are a promise. Faith without fear.

[Animator vs Animation post-apocalyptic AU] When The Chosen One and The Dark Lord happen to find one another in what had become their world, they have no other choices but to rely on each other and face the ruins of what they knew.