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It's the year 2250. Humanity is facing the largest threat in all of history. Ever since it first arrived in 2020, the coronavirus has mutated and developed resistance to the antibodies. Every person now lives in fear of the mutated beings, Creepers, that come alive at night, devouring anything with a beating heart. 

Lizzy is no stranger to the affects of the virus. Her father and the love of her life were both taken from her and turned into the deranged monsters that lurk outside the dome. But when the president announces that they have found a serum that could repel the infection, Lizzy knows better than to hope. She wants nothing to do with the virus. 

But when she's drafted as one of the four to go and receive the serum, Lizzy has no choice but to accept. Going past the dome, walking thousands of miles through Creeper-infested ruins, then bringing back a serum that may not even work? It's a death sentence.

But what other choice does she have?

AMAZING COVER BY @novimundi!!

7/24/20 -&gt; first place in the Stargazing Awards, Adventure category

**WARNING: SOME GORY SCENES AHEAD. **All Rights Reserved

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The Dead and the Restless (Completed with undergoing editing) by A_Story_Spoken

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.

CORONA by black-cypher

Set in 2023 on a parallel universe, fifteen patients in a drug experiment research facility have no choice but to fight against a mutated version of COVID-19 when researchers flee the building. Some patients have the placebo drug, while others unknowingly have the deadly virus mutating in their bodies. One thing isn't clear: Who has the virus, and who is killing off the rest? Best read in the dark with a black screen. Warning: This book has very disturbing content and briefly mentions suicide. Reader's discretion is advised. You've been warned. Read... or you're next. #23 in Conspiracy Theory Awards won (mostly Mystery/Thriller or Horror genre) 🥇 Creory Awards 🥇 The Pineapple Awards 🥇 The Quarantine Awards 🥇 Starlight Book Awards for Best Antagonist (Everyone) 🥇 The Quarantine Awards 🥇 The Coronation Awards 🥇 Billboard Novel Awards 2020 🎖 Most Popular Book (Library Promotes) 🎖 Library Recommends 🥈 in the Diamond in the Rough Awards 🥈 in the Library Awards 🥈 in the Discovering Elites Awards 🥈Noble Awards 🥉 Imperial Awards 🥉 The Pineapple Awards (Overall Winner) 🥉 Starlight Book Awards for Best Protagonist (Kiana) Started on: May 14, 2020 Completed: June 20, 2020 DISCLAIMER: This entire book is a work of FICTION and made for ENTERTAINMENT. Please do not misconstrue anything mentioned in this book as fact. Some of the things mentioned are based on conspiracy theories and nothing else. Please don't sue me, I only have a dollar to my name! #TheCoronation If you are reading this story on any other platform other than Wattpad, you are very likely to be at risk of a malware attack (you may have heard about the Truyen malware hack). If you wish to read this story in its original, safe form, please go to https://www.wattpad.com/story/223838014 Thank you.l

The Hollowing by MartinNeue

The dead have never been so alive. After a deadly contagion reduced the world's population into mindless, undead monsters, the ruins of America still teem with activity, as some of the dead have regained their intelligence and created their own society; one free from the living's touch. Now, more than a decade later, survivalist extraordinaire Liam Fenix undertakes a harrowing escape from the uninhabited island that has been his prison since before the outbreak began, only to discover that he is the sole survivor of the civilization he left behind. He is not alone, however, as reincarnated bounty hunter Leah believes that Liam holds the key to reversing the pandemic that created her race. Armed with their survivalist expertise and following traces of the past, the two must traverse the wastelands together and bring back life to an otherwise dead world, even as they are pursued by a tyrant who does not want this plague to end. ------- Top tags to date: #1 in Gritty 12/21/2022 - 1/11/2023 ------- New chapters will be posted on Mondays, 4:00-6:00PM EST. Cover art made by @AnnamitaMuscaria.

The hunted by bunnybluewriter

#1st PLACE WINNER OF THE ROSIE AND BLOSSOM AWARDS, ACTION/ADVENTURE CATEGORY I bit my lip to try and suppress the whimper that's threatening to escape my mouth as it all too well fails . It all happed too fast and I guess even faster to me since my vision was blurred by my tears, as I saw three more soldiers I didn't even get to say goodbye ... ***** With a world threatened to the point of non existing , they turn to the survivors of the deadly plague for a life of breeding . They think the only way to save themselves is to create the next human race with the immune ability to survival. They will be stronger, tougher , the next generation formed to perfection. But will it really be that easy ? *** Andrea Hughes was left to fend for herself at the age of 18 when both of her parents died due to the plague . She's been on the run for almost a year , trying to escape the claws of the government, in need of carriers . She never quite got her head around why they needed her if the male population was going extinct but nevertheless didn't want to find out . She's been a fighter since day one and she's not going to stop now . *started 08 September 2018 * *finished 02 April 2019 * *Edited 25 February 2020*

The Altered. by _fiinch_

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Outbreak! Virus 'M' by lord-of-the-pancake

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The Dead and the Restless (Completed with undergoing editing)

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