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Ongoing, First published Jan 18, 2016
We never truly know how much we care about something until we lose it. Trey and his friends are only just beginning to really grasp that after the world as they know it sinks into chaos. Two months after the outbreak that turned more than half the human population of the earth into mindless, flesh-eating "roamers", this group of mostly adolescent survivors find themselves fighting to stay alive in an increasingly inhuman world, traveling to different locations and fighting off new enemies in order to find somewhere to call their own. They quickly learn that its not just the dead they need to worry about.

Inspired by Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead universe, this story introduces an original set of characters doing everything they can to stay alive, even when they begin to ask the question, is living in constant fear of death really living at all?

All characters are fictional and not based off real people, living or dead. This story contains some language and scenes of violence.
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