After the Ending
Lindsey Fairleigh and Lindsey
Pogue
Sci-Fi / Dystopian
Date Published:
2/22/13
The Virus spread. Billions died. The Ending began. We may have
survived the apocalypse, but the Virus changed us.
When people started getting sick, “they” thought it was just the
flu. My roommate, my boyfriend, my family…they’re all gone now. I got sick too.
I should have died with them—with the rest of the world—but I didn’t. I thought
witnessing the human population almost disappear off the face of the earth was
the craziest thing I’d ever experience. I was so wrong. My name is Dani
O’Connor, I’m twenty-six-years-old, and I survived The
Ending.
The Virus changed everything. The world I knew is gone, and life
is backwards. We’ve all had to start over. I’ve been stripped of my home, my
dreams…all that is me. I’m someone else now— broken and changed. Other
survivors’ memories and emotions haunt me. They invade my mind until I can no
longer separate them from my own. I won’t let them consume me. I can’t. My name
is Zoe Cartwright, I’m twenty-six-years-old, and I survived The
Ending.
We’ve been inseparable for most of our lives, and now our
friendship is all we have left. The aftermath of the Virus has stranded us on
opposite sides of the United States. Trusting strangers, making sacrifices,
killing—we’ll do anything to reach one another. Fear and pain may be
unavoidable, but we’re strong…we’re survivors. But to continue surviving in
this unfamiliar world plagued by Crazies and strange new abilities, we have to
adapt. We have to evolve.
EXCERPT
Looking around apprehensively, I made my way toward the
convenience store in hopes of finding a bathroom. The vacant world around me
was eerily silent. All I could hear was the creaking of a giant wooden
billboard being assaulted by the wind. How long has it been since anyone was
here? Through the dark windows I saw a bathroom sign that looked promising, but
I couldn’t bring myself to enter. I wonder if it’s safe…
As I stood outside of the store, I noticed a newspaper box
still filled with papers. I leaned closer. The headline read, BILLIONS DEAD, and
the paper was dated December 9, right before everything had started to shut
down. I inserted a quarter and snatched out a paper. Scanning its contents, my
mouth grew dry and my body stiffened.
…the H1N1/12 pandemic…
…looting and riotous outbreaks
everywhere…
…end of civilization as we know it…
…survivors losing their minds…
…governments can’t control…
…the Apocalypse…
The newspaper slipped from between my fingers. Frozen in
place, I was suffocated by the reality of our
situation.
This
isn’t going away.
The world ended. Thinking of the strange feelings I’d been
experiencing, I once again questioned my own sanity. My thoughts were too loud
to silence. My heart thudded, and I couldn’t swallow the lump in my throat.
Looking out into the abandoned world around me, I realized how alone we really
were. I bent down to reclaim the paper and turned on my heels to head back
toward the truck, completely awestruck as the words I’d read replayed in my
mind. Each was a reminder that the only world I’d ever known had
ended.
Author Bio:
Lindsey Fairleigh lives her life with one foot in a book—as long
as that book transports her to a magical world or bends the rules of science.
Her novels, from post-apocalyptic to time travel and historical fantasy, always
offer up a hearty dose of unreality, along with plenty of adventure and
romance. When she’s not working on her next novel, Lindsey spends her time
reading and trying out new recipes in the kitchen. She lives in the Napa Valley
with her loving husband and confused cats.
Lindsey Pogue has always been a little creative. As a child she
established a bug hospital on her elementary school soccer field, compiled
books of collages as a teenager, and as an adult, expresses herself through writing.
Her novels are inspired by her observations of the world around her—whether
she’s traveling, people watching, or hiking. When not plotting her next
storyline or dreaming up new, brooding characters, Lindsey’s wrapped in
blankets watching her favorite action flicks or going on road trips with her
own leading man.
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