Postapoc Stories

Her life was supposed to be stable. Not perfect. Not exciting. Just... stable. A job. A mortgage. A routine barely held together with coffee and denial. But in a world where supernatural beings-known as the Legends walk openly among humans, stability is never guaranteed for long. When Charlotte loses her job without warning, everything she worked so hard to build begins to crack. Bills don't wait. Time doesn't slow down. And the world she thought she understood is quietly shifting beneath her feet. The Legends control the best jobs, the best lives, and the kind of power humans can't compete with anymore. Everyone knows it. Everyone accepts it. Charlotte just tries to survive it. Until something starts to change. In a world ruled by fate-bound beings who recognize their mates by instinct alone, Charlotte has always believed she was safely outside that story. Too ordinary. Too human. Too overlooked. But fate has never cared about what she believes. And once the Legends start paying attention... nothing in her life will ever be simple again. Because some bonds are not chosen. They are claimed.

Rain keeps falling. Deep in the Grey Zone, the Abyssals are evolving. Hunters Ronan and Lyra accept a routine mission, yet find themselves caught in a greater tide - missing hunters, dead merchants, a stirring breeding ground, and a vow that was never fulfilled three years ago. This is not a tale of heroes saving the world. It is the everyday life of the hunters in Grey Town, and the rain.

A guide to survive the zombie apocalypse by Joy Felicity Kingsworth: 1. Get yourself a cute best friend who you've known since childhood. 2. Form an emotional attachment to a weapon and food item. 3. Lose your sanity. 4. Join a group whose sole purpose is to take the saviour of humanity to California. 5. Attempt to not kill said saviour of humanity. 6. Begin to question your feelings for the best friend from step one. 7. Try not to die. Easy, right? {10K x OC} <Season 1 - (completed)> <Season 2 - (completed)> <Season 3 - (in progress)> **I'm not interested in any art commissions, so please refrain from spamming my comments :)

[BOOK 2 - SEQUEL TO WITHERING WORLD] It only takes an earthquake and a breathtaking discovery of enhanced human abilities for Jesse's life to change. WITHER was conquered three years ago, bringing brighter days to Beacontown and its allies. The blue mycelium antidote is now the people's weapon, keeping the disease in its grave. And as a plus, the New Order's friendship has never been closer. But when a war is lost, not everyone wants to accept defeat, especially not the disease that'd almost doomed humanity. A wicked mutation is underway, too remorseless to spare even the ones who have the greatest chance of survival. This new, blood-curdling variant is wiser, stronger and has stolen the very tactic that Jesse uses to bring home the victory every time - teamwork. Now forcing the infected to their side, WITHER taunts at the antidote that no longer cures. What hope is left for the world? ~~~~ -PERSPECTIVES- [JESSE - 1ST PERSON] [LUKAS - 1ST PERSON] [PETRA - 1ST PERSON] ****

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.

It's been ten years since the fall of humanity. The remaining survivors have to fight intelligent zombies that use stealth and manipulation to attack their victims. They can learn to disguise themselves to look like people. The only way to tell them apart is their eyes because the zombies have dilated pupils. *This is the rewritten version of my first book, The Dead Walk Among Us.

The pandemic ended. But something else began. At first, it was subtle, strange behavior, quiet shifts, a feeling that the world was no longer entirely human. Then came the violence. The disappearances. The terrifying truth no one was ready to face. They weren't being hunted. They were failing to become. As society collapses under the weight of a transformation it can not understand, Tawa finds himself at the center of it all, caught between what humanity was and what it is becoming. With the help of Max, who believes there must be another way and Tony, who refuses to lose himself to the unknown, they uncover a reality far more unsettling than death. Evolution is no longer a choice. It's a process. And once it begins it doesn't stop. But when a third path emerges, one that could save what it means to be human. Tawa must decide if he will guide humanity into something new or watch it tear itself apart trying to hold onto what it once was?

One world is dying. The other is about to be conquered. Lena Voss is a legendary Courier of the Mojave Wasteland, a woman who has survived bullet wounds to the head and the treacherous politics of New Vegas. But when Mr. House's experimental portal technology malfunctions, she is hurled across dimensions into the vibrant, dangerous Kingdom of Vale. She isn't alone. Following in her wake is an army of Securitrons, Caesar's brutal Legion, and the expansionist NCR-all looking to claim the rich resources of Remnant for themselves. In the middle of the chaos, Lena encounters Ruby Rose-a young Huntress with a scythe and a heart full of hope. While Lena is a pragmatist hardened by radiation and betrayal, Ruby believes in the power of heroes. Forced into an uneasy alliance, the two must navigate a landscape of shifting loyalties, invading armies, and the ever-present threat of the Grimm. As the Mojave's grit clashes with Remnant's soul, a bond forms between the Courier and the Huntress that neither expected. To save both worlds, Lena will have to decide if she's still just a girl delivering a package, or if she's found a home worth fighting for.

Five years ago, Jason Thomas's parents died in a car crash and left him three things: a house in Michigan, a German Shepherd named Rainbow, and a 1984 Winnebago that has been rusting in the backyard ever since. He has not started the engine in five years. Three weeks ago, he started having dreams. New York choking on vines. A beach in California where the things coming out of the water have legs now. A stairwell at the end of a hallway, and something at the bottom of it that has too many teeth. Last night he punched his girlfriend in his sleep. This morning he watched her walk through airport security without looking back. Tonight, on his thirtieth birthday, the Winnebago wakes up. Tonight, something inside it starts talking. Tomorrow, every dream he had will be on the news, and Gina will be two thousand miles away in a city that is about to die. He is going to have to drive across what is left of America to reach her. He is going to have to do it in a rusted camper that is no longer a rusted camper. And in the quiet part of himself that he doesn't talk about, he already knows: he was losing her before the world started ending. He just didn't know the world was going to end at the same time.

She was a state champion swimmer. Then the world ended. Madelynn Clark's biggest worry was the 100 breaststroke final at the Utah 6A State Championship. That was February 2025. By summer, the TSJ pandemic reached America. By fall, the dead stopped staying dead. Now Draper is a ghost town. The safe zones have fallen. The infected are fast, relentless, and impossible to stop. Maddy has lost everything except her mom, her little brother, and a hammer she found in the garage. But she still has the water. And the water remembers what she is.

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.

"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.

Ten years ago, the world didn't end. It was locked. A mysterious atmospheric release stopped adults from aging. Societies collapsed, and people fled to the safest places they could find; nuclear power plants, refineries, and sealed industrial zones. But not everyone stayed free. A global system known as INTERLOCK began taking people; engineers, technicians, operators and moving them into controlled zones where they were kept alive, stable... and unable to leave. Vera survived inside a protected nuclear facility in Europe. Mike didn't. Taken during the first weekend of the collapse, he disappeared without a trace. For ten years, Vera has been searching. When she finally finds him inside an Interlock zone, he is no longer just a prisoner. He is part of the system. And when she asks him to leave, he gives her the only answer he has left: "I can't."

Two guys in a post-apocalyptic world *have* to get along for their survival. Theodore, a conyo man coming from a rich background has a lack of understanding for the moreno guy he meets-Andrei, who came from a family that struggled to make ends meet. Will their emotional baggage up to now lead to their suprising connection, or a fierce rivalry?

Grace has grown up relatively safe in her small farming community decades after the war which decimated the world. But when a mysterious man tells her he knows more about her past than she does, she follows him on a dangerous mission in hopes of figuring out why she has never felt like she belonged. She soon finds herself fighting for her life and the lives of others as she learns that the world outside is a much more brutal place than she had ever imagined.

Do your past mistakes define you? After being left behind in the rapture, Lara Lessu begins to travel the post-societal collapse world filled with those not worthy enough of being taken to the paradise. Loneliness is everywhere, but to Lara's luck, she is not alone with Namu Pala and her cat, Neppy, accompanying her in the journey. Pond, Pillage, and Unreal arc have been weekly releases. Going forward, each arc will be released in a bulk every some months. The story in total will have nine arcs. ATTENTION! If you didn't pay attention to the tag last time, the story has been marked mature as the story contains mature themes related to mental health that could push the story to be 'mature' by Wattpad's standards, but I would say it's fine for a 16+ person to read it. Started: 26th of April, 2024 Ended: ??? Special thanks to https://www.wattpad.com/user/SmugMemph for contributions to the story! And special thanks to @tatsudraws.bsky.social for the story visual in chapter 82!

Chicago, 2162. Thirty-one years after the Mainframe fell. Thirty-one years after a ten-year-old girl walked out of a trading floor carrying a dead man's device and the weight of something no child should have had to do. The world did not rebuild itself the way the survivors hoped it would. Chicago is still Chicago - broken, violent, alive in the stubborn way that cities survive when they probably shouldn't. The gangs control the sectors. The Hybrids still walk the streets at night, executing an instruction that has no destination. There is no government. There is no order. There is only endurance. Carrie Webb is forty-one years old. She lives alone in a cabin by a lake in Wisconsin, far from the city that made her and broke her and asked too much of her before she was old enough to understand what was being asked. She grows her own food. She filters her own water. She splits her own wood. She has the C.L.A.W. on her wrist - the same device that Eddie Marsh built in a rented apartment in Austin, that Stevie carried for twenty years, that she inherited on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade the day she lost the only person, besides her dead father, who had ever chosen to protect her. For thirty-one years, it has been enough. Until now.

When the world is set about 22 years after World War III, the human population has decreased drastically, their position has been replaced by a terrible creature with pale, spiky skin that spreads a virus to make colonies, almost all over the world. They call it 'Ghastler' - which was originally made for a weapon of war but instead destroyed humans. The leader of a Scorpion shelter ordered troops who were forced to loot the antivirus in Coloval (the scientists who created Ghastler). Feeling that there was something strange about the mission, some Scorpion troops realized that the antivirus was just propaganda to drive them out, killing them slowly because they realized that sooner or later they would become extinct.

500 years ago, the earth collapsed and put humans into a minority. The world continued to adapt and change in unimaginable ways. Then.... a girl wakes up with no clue where she is, and that is the day her life changes. She has no memory of her life before she woke up and is forced to adapt. There are six people with her, all in the same situation, all clinging to the same shred of hope of surviving.

Three swimmers. Three states. One apocalypse. Emma is chasing a state title in Georgia. Sienna is trying to prove she belongs after quitting softball. Audrey is holding her family together as her brother falls apart. They've never met. They never will. But when the world ends-fast zombies, walled cities, everything they love consumed by chaos-their lives become tethered by grief, by hope, and by the one thing that never leaves them: the water. This is not a love story. This is not a hero story. This is survival. Lap by lap. Breath by breath.