Eat Your Heart Out

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Reads 336
Votes 110
Parts 3
Time 8m

The year is 1986. 23-year-old Michelle Bradbury is struggling to make it through the decade alive as she watches the world as she knows it crumble into ruin. It's been 1 year since the zombie apocalypse first began. Caused by an airborne virus, turning civilians into flesh- craving maniacs.

Michelle and her crew have finally found stable ground, taking shelter in an abandoned video arcade, that miraculously still has power. Michelle's life soon falls into a routine.

Wake up. Kill zombies. crush on the new guy. Play arcade games. Go to sleep. Repeat.

Until...
The group discovers something strangely pixelated about the zombies and some very eerie similarities to one of their favorite arcade games. Could this possibly change everything they think they know about the reality they're living in? Better question, could they possibly find a way to eradicate the zombies entirely?All Rights Reserved

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