Still Alive
androgynous07
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  • Reads 1,068
  • Votes 190
  • Parts 20
  • Time 4h 41m
androgynous07
Ongoing, First published Sep 30, 2020
Mature
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Student. Teacher. Slacker. Doctor. Cop. Ex-Con.

It doesn't matter who we were.

Our real lives begin when the world ends.

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MAGGIE lives a quiet and simple life. She wakes up, goes to work, goes home to work some MORE, goes to sleep, and the cycle continues...until one day, a pandemic breaks that cycle, takes away everything she has ever loved, and lays waste to everything she has ever known.

Now, surrounded by the man-eating infected, there is nothing left to do but pick up the shattered pieces of her old life and embrace the new Maggie who quickly learns the one rule of this new world: 

Kill or be killed.

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Warning: Contains gore, violence, death, and strong language

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Award:
🥈2nd - The Golden Flower Awards (Mar 2021)
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A World Left Behind

6 parts Ongoing Mature

An Original- Laura is a young woman, living alone in Chicago. After going through a breakup, she made the tough decision to leave her hometown St. Louis, in hopes of starting over. But little did she know that this fresh start, would not go the way she'd hoped it would. When a mysterious infectious disease broke out, strange things started to happen to people. They turned into flesh eating creatures, seeking blood from their very own kind. Life would never be the same. She would have to learn how to survive, and make her way to safety, with help from friends and strangers along the way. Together they fight, hopeful they can put back together the pieces of the world that was left behind.

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