The Last Sound

Once, there had been a world of noise. Voices shouting, machines rumbling, the sound of life thrumming everywhere. Now, all of that was gone, replaced by a vast, empty silence. The world had turned into a ghost of itself, abandoned, decayed. People, those who were left, stayed in shadows, hiding from the things that roamed. She, too, hid. But she didn't hide from the infected. No, she hid from something worse-herself, and the memories that haunted her.