A desolate landscape, wracked with upheaval, the uncanny nature of a place once so familiar. A revelation of what was formerly undisclosed, the harbingers of apocalypse are edging ever closer...
The wasteland of abandoned memories, the end of the world or a chance for a new beginning. Be it a personal apocalypse, or one of great cataclysm, the stories that arise from the rubble are tales of aftermath and tales of survival. Bridging the gap between Science Fiction and Horror, the gothic overtones of the apocalyptic imagination are explored to their full extent in these short stories.
After the Fall: Tales of the Apocalypse
is a collection of twenty short stories from some of the best up-and-coming writers of modern science fiction. All apocalyptic or dystopian in nature, some stories bring laughter, while others bring tears, but each is unique in its interpretation of the theme.
-After the Fall-
features:
Casting off
by
Robert Holtom
(Competition winner) As I sit in a cafe, waiting for a loved one, so I contemplate the end of the world.
Nightshade
Damon DiMarco
Civilization's death rattle as we succumb to the Nightshade virus in a curious and ironic way.
In Debt
Javier Moyano Perez
A dystopian story about a fictitious America enslaved for eternity by merciless creditors and artificial age preservation.
The Dying and the Desolation
Paul S. Huggins
Drake is alive, man and animal alike have been wiped off the planet by a virilent form of rabies, immune or lucky he must adapt if he wants to survive.
Seen and not Heard
Ilana Masad
A mother's fight to retain her sanity and her illegal, secret, son in the post-nuclear dictatorship she lives in.
They Turn Red Then Black
Spencer Lawes
In a run-down village dependent on a river of garbage, two boys desperately try to find a way to stop their crippled mother being raped by the inhabitants of nearby villages.
Diary of a Zee
Brian LeCluyse
Set in an apocalyptic, dying Austin, Texas and told from the point of view of a vegetarian, pot-smoking, hippie, liberal zombie.
The Ambulancemen
Heather Parry
A world turned on its head; a world where the sirens of an Ambulance are to be feared, not respected.
You Call This an Apocalypse?
Errick A. Nunnally
Two foster kids more different than alike, from one of the poorest neighborhoods in Boston during the first day of the zombie apocalypse. Also in the collection:
Rush Hour
Thomas Brown
Sale of the Century
Liam Brown
We Don't Go to the River
Jeremy Watssman
All Clear in the Anderton House
Claire Fuller
Over the Vanishing City
Toby Lloyd
Up the Road
Andrew Saxsma
The End of Time
Robert Legg
Stasis by Rebecca
Jane Garner
The Comeback Tour
Andrea Mullaney
Anaesthetised
Emma Lyskava
The Remnants of Civilization
Vince Liberato
Foreword by
Kelly Gardner
Cover art:
Wanderers of a Poor Town
Edwin Yang
All proceeds from this collection go towards running competitions for aspiring writers!