The Virus
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Last published Fri, Mar 10, 2017
It was not the end of the word - it was just the end of a world everyone used to know.
Everything had changed since the so-called Solanum virus broke out at the end of August 2013. The blood-borne disease caused everyone infected to die before they rose from the dead with a voracious appetite for human flesh. The virus spread across the globe rapidly. A month was all it took to turn the world into a goddamned place that was taken over by the undead.
This story is about Joyce Violet Parker, a twenty-six-year-old woman from Kentucky that tries to survive in an apocalyptic world that was brought low by a global zombie infestation.
The plot is a mashup of facts I got out of the book "The Zombie Survival Guide" by Max Brooks, "The Walking Dead"(TV series and computer game), "The Last of Us" (PS3 game), zombie films I've watched and my imagination.
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