Featured Dystopian & Apocalypse Stories
16 stories
Solacium by fantasynote
Solacium
fantasynote
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What do you do when a tall, unreasonably attractive alien crash lands in front of you? You shoot him of course. ─── ・ 。゚☆: *.☽ .* :☆゚. ─── It's been years since a nuclear war decimated the Earth, killing about 90% of the world's population. The ones that survived now live in the ruin of nuclear wastelands with their numbers slowly dwindling due to starvation, radiation, and even murder by a gang called The Deviants. Blake West is one of the survivors - sassy, brave, and brutally sarcastic, she takes crap from no one. With her father's past as a cop, she knows her way around a pistol and has managed to survive by following a few simple rules. Rule One: Trust no one Rule Two: Never go anywhere unarmed Rule Three: ALWAYS shoot first Simple right?
Plague Saint [NOW A PUBLISHED BOOK] by auroraanorth
Plague Saint [NOW A PUBLISHED BOOK]
auroraanorth
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[PREVIEW ONLY] No one knows the real identity of the hospital's Plague Saint is sixteen-year-old Winter Pierce. No one knows she's a fraud. And no one knows she's a killer. While floods and heat waves devastate the southern lands, the northern cities face blizzards and plagues. Up until two weeks ago, the Plague Saint of Devil's Pass was a real doctor. But when Winter learned he was only saving the rich and planned to let her mother die, she confronted him. And killed him. The death was an accident, but taking his place to save lives was a choice. Then, Winter's forced to kill again to save her brother. Her double life, already doomed to fail, is complicated further when her assistant insists on tracking down the murderer. Attempting to cover her tracks leaves Winter tangled in a political web. All the while, people are getting sicker, and trying to find the cure leads her to an enemy far smarter and more dangerous than she is. Powerful people want to see Winter fail. There's more to the plagues than meets the eye. Winter is rapidly running out of time, but she's determined to save her brother from death and her city from corruption. And she'll kill anyone who gets in her way.
The Enchantment of Lady Ice by greenwriter
The Enchantment of Lady Ice
greenwriter
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The Ice Lady... She is not the most charming. In fact, she is too cold, too frank, and too flat. Worse, the only home she has known all her life has been taken away from her and she has to find a way to keep it. Upon her mother's strong suggestion, she has to at least try to seduce the next Lord of Langworthy. The Cursed Friend... He is charming and rich. He is handsome and smart. Women wanted him. If only he was not cursed. For now, having everything leaves him with nothing to do but be the friend to help the future Lord of Langworthy escape from Lady Ice. When these two completely opposite individuals cross paths, sparks fly. (This story is a standalone prequel title in the Everard Family series.)
71 by GreenPastels
71
GreenPastels
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The world ended a long time ago. Some humans survived. But in order to do so, the original Survivors enhanced themselves with animal DNA, adopting traits that allowed them to live in this mutated wilderness of giant Beasts and vast, unexplored swathes of jungle-AKA, the Wold. But something that unnatural had to come at a cost. Meet Ash-one of the unlucky ones. She's almost human-71%, to be exact. With cat claws, ears, and a lot of anxiety, she's on the run to avoid death or slavery at the hands of human purists in the Capital. And, she just might have accidentally set out to save the rest of her kind along the way. When she encounters Stone on her quest, a brooding wolf-boy who relies on knives and sarcasm to fight his way through the Wold, she may get a lot more than she signed up for, as he decides to accompany her along on her quest. Through endless battles, hidden villages, and touching encounters with the travelers of the Wold, Ash and Stone may just change the world as they know it.
Infection |Infected Book 1| by KarateChop
Infection |Infected Book 1|
KarateChop
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WHEN THEY RISE, WE WILL FALL. We've seen the movies, we've watched the TV shows, but nothing will ever prepare us for a real zombie apocalypse. When Desi, a normal teenage girl, wakes up one morning to screaming neighbors and a bleeding mother, she quickly realizes that pop culture's most grusome nightmare is real. Losing everything, Desi finds herself scared and alone until she is saved by a boy wielding a baseball bat. Fighting for a life that she isn't even sure she wants anymore, Desi must learn that it is okay to love again when it seems there is nothing to live for. Falling in love isn't easy with infected biting at your heels, but once Desi finds it again, she will do whatever it takes to keep her and her love alive. / HORROR / ACTION / ADVENTURE / ROMANCE / SCIENCE FICTION / *IN SERIOUS EDITING PROCESS* Highest Ranking: #3 in Horror, #4 in Science Fiction Cover by @sugarcrystals
Breeder (The Ephemeral: Book 1) by gtgrandom
Breeder (The Ephemeral: Book 1)
gtgrandom
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[28 Chapter Preview of 2019 Edition. 2025 Edition Available on Amazon] When an army of darkness falls from the sky, Alex Kingsley enlists the help of her male peers and ventures into spirit-infested lands to save humanity. ***** She's an outcast cursed to consume the memories of anything she touches. A woman fated to repopulate the nation's army. A breeder barred from the sword. And she's desperate for a taste of freedom. So when a tournament is held to recruit the army's best candidates, Alex Kingsley does what she does best: she intervenes. But it's only after dark forces are unleashed upon humanity that Alex finally has the chance to prove herself -- and put her curse to good use. ***** 2020 Watty Award Winner: Fantasy 1st Place Admiration Awards 2020: Fantasy
DIVISION 52 - BOOK I by Skyler_Wilde
DIVISION 52 - BOOK I
Skyler_Wilde
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In the distant future there are two powers that control Merridian city. The first: A dictatorship known as the Silver Sun, whose militant soldiers enforce the law. The second: A crime lord known as Scorpion. She controls the entire black market, faction gangs, and every other killer for hire in the city. They are Division 52. When sudden and lethal attacks with Silver Sun marks start littering around the upper class sectors action must be taken swiftly. The chaos quickly climbs on both sides and tensions within sectors reaches its boiling point. But the game all changes when Scorpion discovers that the Emperor of the Silver Sun has a daughter. This girl is impulsive and illusive. Nothing of the pampered royalty that was first suspected. With different agendas and impossible backgrounds, the pair are quickly caught between wanting to kill one another and build something much more in the farthest depths of Merridian...
The Last She (Books 1-3, the Last She Series) by hjnelson
The Last She (Books 1-3, the Last She Series)
hjnelson
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Ara, the only woman left alive after a plague, is searching for a way to save humanity. She thinks there isn't a man she can trust, until she meets Kaden. ***** A plague has swept over the Earth, killing the majority of the population and every female. Except one. Ara witnessed the horror and destruction, but for the last three years she has survived. Now, desperation and hunger force her out of the mountains and onto a dangerous path; across the flooded downtown and through the gangs of survivors is hope. Ara's father spoke of a clue that could save not just her, but humanity. Then she is captured by a group of men. Despite the seeming kindness of Kaden, a young man her own age, Ara doesn't know if she can trust them. Then again, there's no way she can cross the plague-ridden city on her own. Men. Monsters. Is there a difference? This is the story of The Last She. (This book contains all of The Last She Series - Book 1: The Last She, Book 2: The Last City and Book 3: The Last Creation) [[word count: 250,000-300,000 words]]
MAD by cvilyn
MAD
cvilyn
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Wattys Shortlist 2022 - When she isn't looking, they call her the Princess of the Ghouls, but they haven't seen the assassination order on her secret identity: viper. Stuck in Lake Darling, ruled by her father's gang, Vi has one objective... run away, for good this time. But her plans crumble when the army launches an attack, abducting every civilian under the age of twenty-eight. Dragged away, locked in a Reproduction Facility by the very people who want her dead, Vi has to keep her criminal identity a secret. And to add insult to injury, she finds herself trapped with Reid Myers, the gangster responsible for her brother's disappearance. ... Enemies to Lovers Young Adult Post Apocalyptic Mature (18+) Wattys Shortlist 2022!!! 😁 ...
The Last City (Wattpad Books Edition) by hjnelson
The Last City (Wattpad Books Edition)
hjnelson
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The Last City is now published as a Hardcover, and E-book with W by Wattpad Books! As a Wattpad reader, you can access the Wattpad Books Published Edition here upon purchase. ***** The highly anticipated sequel to The Last She, which Goodreads has included in its Most Anticipated Young Adult Novels of December 2021 Ara Is desperate to reunite with her father and put the events that happened in Boise behind her. Ara hopes to find sanctuary in The Last City, an almost-mythical place where the plague is non-existent and she can finally discover the truth about her family. Only once she arrives, the truth is stranger than fiction and Ara wonders if she's made a huge mistake . . . Kaden Will go anywhere and will do anything for Ara.. But he's tested to his limits in The Last City, where he is forced to join a dangerous expedition. Kaden soon finds himself separated from Ara and once again on the run for his life. Barely escaping alive, he needs to risk it all again to find Ara in The Last City . . . Sam Is left for dead but very much alive. In fact, he's rigged an electrical system and blasts some music, feeling almost normal for the first time since almost losing his life. He doesn't know where Kaden and Ara are, and when he meets a mysterious girl named E, they embark on an adventure that will bring all of their lives clashing together . . . All three must uncover the secrets of The Last City if they have any hope of getting out of this apocalypse alive. Set immediately after the events of The Last She, H.J. Nelson's The Last City is a gripping story of three people desperate to survive against all odds, and love is sometimes all that matters. Available in Hardcover and E-book.