Light Amidst the Darkness

"There is a monster crouching in our living room, with blank white eyes and rotting green skin. Its lips are peeled back to reveal grayish teeth and thick saliva. Its gnarled hands are curled into claws and it is looking straight at me." - Melissa Dixon, 16
"The lower half has my family in it. I want to contact them. I reach for my phone, when I hear a muffled sound through my window. Is that a scream?" - Rose Ryan, 23
"We both lie still as we hear it again: a cacophony of moans, not unlike an eerie song." - Jackson Webster, 26
"I'm not going to sit here and let them die out there. No one in this world cares about me enough for my life to be more valuable than the lives outside. A wall of bricks separates me and danger, and I am about to leave that behind in my quest to do what's right." - Caden Richard, 24
"On the other line, he begins to cry, and I begin to cry, in the back of a store, with a boy that I don't know, and there are dead bodies in the street, and zombies all over the place, and for a moment I just want to die, I want to die, I want to." - Harper Banks, 21
"I'm standing, exposed and tottering, in front of Jackson. My arms hang limply at my sides, tears run down my face, and I can tell by the look in Jackson's face that he's never seen me look so defeated before." - Cameron Winters, 23
Six young people, drawn close together under dire and similar circumstances, form a unique bond that is constantly put to the test throughout a horrifyingly traumatizing zombie apocalypse, in which they team up with one another in the race for survival that only a few have lived long enough to participate in.