After the Fall - An Apocalypse Romance
39 parts Complete The world ended five years ago. We're still here. Unfortunately.
When the dead started walking, the living stopped trusting each other. Governments fell. Raiders rose. And somewhere in a underground lab, scientists started hunting down the people the virus couldn't kill.
Alia Shah has survived five years of the apocalypse with exactly one person she trusts - her brother. She isn't looking for more. More gets you killed.
Then a stranger's bullet finds her shoulder, and suddenly she's bleeding out in a ruined city with three people she doesn't know, a twelve year old who keeps looking at her like she hung the moon, and a boy who shot her and apparently intends to spend the rest of his life feeling terrible about it.
Great.
Now they're headed south through two weeks of forest, military patrols, and raider territory, chasing a rumor about a survivor settlement that may or may not exist. Close quarters. Limited supplies. Two sets of brothers who are all sharp edges and bad communication.
And somewhere between the gunshot and the journey, things start to get - complicated.
AFTER THE FALL is a slow burn zombie apocalypse story about found family, learning to trust the wrong people at the right time, and what it means to be human when the world has done everything it can to make you stop.
Two brothers who won't admit they need each other.
Two siblings who already know they do.
One very long walk south.
Updates. Mature themes, violence, and the occasional crisis.