The Hollow Bloom
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Last published Thu, Jul 31, 2025
It started with silence. Then came the screams. And by the time we understood what was happening, one of us was already gone.
Oklahoma City fell in hours. The world followed in days. Now we're on the run-- Six strangers bound by blood, memory, and the need to survive. But survival has a price.
The infected aren't mindless. The longer they're alive, the smarter they get. And something ancient is waking beneath our feet... something that knows who I am, even if I don't.
This isn't just the end of the world.
It's the beginning of something worse.
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(inspired by the last of us, zombie land, house of ashes and the walking dead)
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