Apocalyptic and Post-apocalyptic - Stories

In a future where it never ceases to rain, Joel finds himself alone on the streets after curfew. How he got there is not clear, his memory is fragmented. Is it being rescued to find yourself in a sex club? Past, present, and future are interwoven, somehow there must be an answer? Perhaps, he is the answer? And what about the other boys? What about the planet? Is there a future?

The apocalypse is cold, hungry, and feral. Unless you're Big Bill—a grumpy survivor forced into a velvet Santa suit—and Rat, his chaotic elf companion. When they stumble upon the last Coca-Cola Christmas truck, they must use tinned ham, a dead battery, and desperate holiday spirit to survive a troop of cannibalistic Boy Scouts. This Christmas, the last hope isn't a hero. It's a delusion in a red suit.

Two young women living on an island meet and begin to fall in love. A plague has ravaged the population, but it ended before either of them were born, and they only know the world as it now is.

Prompt #9 - Creative scene by @wildone

You run into school knowing you are late, again. You quickly stop at your locker and ditch your jacket and grab some books. As usual the halls are quiet during classes. You dash to your classroom, open the door and start on your explanation and stop. No one is there. No teacher, no other students. You leave and look at other classrooms, all empty. You check your phone and it is actually a school day and not a holiday or anything else. What's happening?

Prompt 263: First line: "It's behind me, isn't it."

Centaurus 4 is the latest mission to Proxima Centauri b. Three attempts to reach the distant planet were unmanned. The main reason for that was that Proxima Centauri b (PC-b) is 4.22 light-years (1.3 parsecs) from Earth. Recent advancements in space travel have reduced the travel time to 153 days at ten times light speed. The story takes place roughly two hundred years in our future.

Centaurus 4 has a crew of 16. The first three members of the crew have recently exited the ship and started their survey of the immediate area. What they experience is shocking, to say the least.

Young Jake has been guided towards his high school building along with many other survivors from all of the surrounding areas, as the country attempts to make it through a zombie outbreak. It is only by chance that a beautiful stranger gets holed up in the same building. Even in a world overrun by the dead, love can still make you feel so alive.

In a post-apocalyptic world, Vampires reign supreme and Humans are destined to serve them until death. Alaric is a Resistant who has sworn to free his kin. Unfortunately, one of his missions goes awry. Not only is he captured, but he also piques the interest of the most dreaded Vampire of all: the Mad Baron. From then on, Alaric has no choice but to cooperate with the species he detests above all else; a collaboration whose secret could hold the only salvation for Humanity and the world.

The 4th Spinoff story from the "Shelter" series, an ex-military officer is forced to race out into the threat of a total social shut down to save his son during the chaos of a zombie apocalypse! Can he get there in time? Or will he lose the one thing that means most to him as the world falls apart?

Elliot and David both had their lives changed by encounters with Extraterrestrial life as children. While most have seen or heard of their tales, it is not the end of their strange adventures. Their stories continue as they traverse the realms of possibilities beyond imagination.