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The Aftermath The Z virus fell from the sky and within days the world had changed in ways that no one could have ever predicted. One month later, it was a wasteland. The cities were dark, dead monuments to the horror filled final days of mankind. The machines, cars and buildings were now just the ugly skeletal remains of what the human race had accomplished before it died. The dead decaying bodies that lined the streets and highways, told the story of mankind’s final days to anyone who cared to listen. The story of the struggle to live, then the story of those who ran for their lives when...

They had survived the Zombie apocalypse and had escaped to an isolated location in the mountains in Western Pennsylvania. Then they had survived the roaming gangs of the living that appeared when civilization became a broken lawless free for all. Finally they had managed to live through the sub-freezing temperatures of a long Pennsylvania winter. Gary and Alyce hoped the cold winter had cleansed the world of the evils that taken over the world. As the warm sun of spring began to bring hope, Gary and Alyce leave their safe isolated cabin in the mountains in search of the answers to their ...

When Dave Kelly graduated from college, he decided to leave the family farm in Ohio and make his own way in the world. Dave accepted a job in Starke, Florida. He took Maggie, his zombie book fanatic wife, his three year old son Joey and moved to Florida. The job didn’t pan out as expected. During the last two years Dave and his family struggled to eat and pay the bills. They thought things couldn’t get any worse. They couldn’t have been more wrong. When a fantastic job opportunity presented itself, Dave and Maggie couldn’t believe their luck. They felt that their lives had finally ...

Infection Z – The Apocalypse Mike and Tony were on a weekend getaway of drinking beer, playing cards and solving the world’s problems at Tony’s cabin when the end began. They had often discussed how fragile the world was. The world’s many unstable political leaders could throw the world into chaos at any time over something as simple as a someone waking up on the wrong side of the bed. The financial markets of the world were constantly on the brink of plunging the world into bankruptcy. Someone being late on their car payment could push the world into a major depression. Society was...

“The end justifies the means!” “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few!” These statements have been debated by politicians, philosophers and leaders throughout history. For many they are considered logical principles to live by. To others, these ideals are considered immoral and evil. I guess to most, it depends on who gets to make the decision and what is in it for them. We would be startled to learn how often our fate rests in the hands of others. The fact that you are reading this means that fortunately for you, you ended up on the right side of most of those ...

Gary and Alyce set out in their RV on a long anticipated and much needed vacation. They plan to spend a week of quiet and relaxation in the little beach town of Cape May on the Jersey Shore. They arrive at their favorite campground, The Depot Travel Park, and start what they hope will be a “Great” week of fun and relaxation. The US Coast Guard Cutter, Endever, led by Lieutenant Commander Charles Smith, aka “Smitty”, makes a fascinating discovery off the coast of Cape May. A discovery that soon sets off a chain reaction of horrific events in Cape May! Soon Gary and Alyce’s “Quiet...

When Mike Hodges and his friends decided one night on a whim to join the Army, they could have never imagined how their lives would change. As things worked out, their joining the Army didn’t have anything to do with what was to happen, but it did give them an insider’s view of what was soon to begin. They always knew that with the state of the world, with climate change, over population and worldwide starvation, with the fact that no one was able to get along with each other, that if something didn’t change civilization would one day implode. However, when the world began to be ...

Winfield Junction was a town where nothing ever happened. It was a small isolated community out in the countryside northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a few miles off of Interstate Route 28. No one paid much attention to the small community and Winfield Junction paid little attention to what was going on in the outside world. When strange things started to occur around Winfield Junction, it took them all by surprise. The zombie apocalypse had begun, causing the power and all forms of communication to go out. The residents of Winfield Junction had no idea what was going on and they would ...

Airman Johnson, the Air Force’s new “Golden Boy” brings an unusual idea to his Lieutenant and his Captain. He believes he has uncovered a secret enemy operation that has gone undetected by our country’s security system. When Johnson’s commanding officers agree that he may have stumbled onto a threat to our national security, they take action to neutralize the threat. However, their operation to quietly neutralize the threat turns into what appears to be a giant fiasco. Tim scrambles to get out of work early so he can get home in time for his daughter’s birthday party. Despite ...

Doc Kennedy, Petty Officer Chervanak, Seamen Davis and Rogers had been searching for signs of life ever since they arrived at Granite Mountain. After a long operation, they had only managed to find two girls and a dog (Abbey, Fran and Snoop) near Stone Idaho. With a little communication’s wizardry, Marine Captain Byron and a few of his men, along with the small group they had discovered living near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, (Tony, Mike, Linda, four year old Jamie and her cat, George) had found Doc and his group and joined up with them at Granite Mountain. Despite these two small successes,...

If you saw the movie Night of the Living Dead, you only know half of the story! Contents Ground Zero Pages 1 – 194 Infection Z: Apocalypse Pages 195 - 565 Bonus Complimentary copy. Doctor Thomas Jacobs had led a hectic, fast paced but orderly and accomplished life. He had graduated medical school and the after only a few short years, he landed the job of head physician in charge of medical treatment at the Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. An amazing accomplishment for a man who had just turned thirty years old. But after a family was admitted to his hospital and began to...

Shaun and Megan lived in the outskirts of a small town near Latrobe, Pennsylvania. They ignored the news coverage of an outbreak in Africa. Africa was always having outbreaks of some sort of disease. When the networks began to report incidents taking place in Europe, they ignored the reports as another effort by the networks to sensationalize the news and make something out of nothing. They started to take the reports more seriously when outbreaks started to occur in New York and Pittsburgh. But by then, it was too late. Within days, the dead were everywhere. It was impossible to go into ...

It was a normal balmy night in Kingsland, Georgia, at least that was how it started. But as the night progressed, it soon became apparent that something about the night was wrong. It wasn’t long after the night began that things started to spiral out of control. Michelle arrived at the Kingsland Public Safety Building to start her first night on her new job. She had bought a new dress and hoped to make a good impression on her first night. The job was something she had never done before, but she hoped she would be able get through the night without making too many mistakes. After all, she...

Preface Gary and Alyce had been on vacation when the zombie apocalypse began. The little beach town of Cape May turned from paradise to hell. They managed to survive when Cape May was overrun by the hordes of the undead. They barely escaped and made it back home to Pennsylvania. Within days the world they knew was crumbling around them. Life as they knew it ceased to exist. Life now was no longer having nice things, watching your favorite TV show, or deciding what to have for dinner. Life was now a matter of just surviving the day. With the evils of what was now the world closing in on them...

It had been one year since the Zombie Apocalypse began, Chris and his friends had built a life for themselves in what remained of an old farm that had been abandoned in the countryside outside of Irwin, Pennsylvania. The old farm had given them a chance to learn how to survive after their world had been turned upside down. They had learned how to protect themselves, to find food and avoid the horrible death that awaited anyone that let their guard down or became careless. They were proud of what they had accomplished and felt that they had learned just about everything they needed to know ...

The House on the Road to Hell It was a pandemic that no one could have ever expected. With in a few months after it made its first appearance, most of humanity had been destroyed and civilization became a distant memory. The living that still remained had lost everything. They were reduced to scavenging through what little they could find in the land of the dead. Mick Taylor was one of the living that had somehow survived the initial onslaught of the dead. Mick had to risk his life every day just to find something to eat as he dodged the dead that hunted the living. One day while traveling ...

Commander Christopher Elders and the crew of the USS Scranton were on a mission in the Black Sea when the Zombie Apocalypse occurred. Their mission required a total communications blackout during the thirty days they were submerged. They were totally unaware what was happening in the world above them. Matt and Jesse shared a cell in the North Carolina State prison system. They had no idea what was going on in the outside world. Other than a few unreliable rumors that circulated among the prisoners, it was life as usual. Even if they had known what was going on, they probably still ...

The Class of 1969 was a small class, having graduated only 92 students. Their claim to fame was the fact that they were the last class to graduate from Laurel Valley High School. After the class of 1969 graduated, the Laurel Valley School District merged with the Ligonier Valley School District. All future graduating classes graduated from Ligonier Valley. The Laurel Valley School District was no more. After the 50th reunion, the class soon had another distinguishing event that set them apart from any other graduating class when two members of the reunion committee disappeared without a ...

Do you remember where you were when Kennedy was shot? Do you remember what you were doing when the first plane hit the Twin Towers on 9-11? Do you remember where you were when the world as we knew it ended? Joe Boswel does and he will never forget as long as he lives. How long that will be is anyone’s guess. Captain Joe Boswel, a veteran of the U.S. Navy, a fighter pilot who flew F-14 Tomcats off the deck of the USS Theodore Roosevelt during the last Gulf War, was the senior officer of the U.S. crew on the International Space Station. Bill Puler, a medical researcher and Dave McCain, a ...

Some thought they were prepared, but to be prepared, you first had to know what it was you were preparing for. No sane person would ever prepare for something that could never occur. When the Zombie Apocalypse came, by the time anyone figured out what was happening, it was too late. It was already over. People were at first confused, they thought it was a joke. When they began to realize this was for real, they had already lost any chance they had to stop it. When the masses of the dead began to double in size every hour, there was just no way to stop them. Many people weren’t even aware ...