Blue Zone Zyracuse

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  • So it’s the End of the World

    US Government Publication – Airborne Informational Leaflet (AIL) – 1A The US Government, through FEMA, has enacted a ten-step plan to combat this new and rapidly spreading threat. Step 1 is this rigorous airborne leaflet campaign designed to combat the spread of Solanum and aid survivors of the plague through public awareness and preparedness. Unfortunately…

  • To The Editor

    May 8, 20XX To the Editor: Yesterday, my class had to stay late after school. My teacher said it was because a bear was in my neighborhood. After they let us go home, my dad wouldn’t let me play outside because a bear was in my neighborhood. Last night they caught the bear down my…

  • Until Death

    Brad’s parents were always fighting. He hated it. He’d wake up to the sound of the screaming spouses and come home from school to the same monotonous noise. If it wasn’t bills, it was senseless jealousy. He had started to grow accustomed to it, but had never become immune. One day, Brad got off the…

  • Eight Times Over Miss October

    I hate Magritte. I never understood why until I was an old man, felt like an old man at least. Then I figured out just what a smug son of a bitch he really was. When the outbreak hit I ran, like everyone else. I ended up deep in the mountains. I found a cabin.…

  • Unforgiven

    John sprinted down the street of a once quiet suburban town. Now all hell was unleashing around him. He ran past a white station wagon that had been pinned between a red truck and a Pontiac Grand Prix. The two children in the back pressed themselves against the seat as hard as they could, just…

  • Survival

    Date: 8/13/20– Location: North Carolina, Camp Mackall Special Forces training base. Approx 25 Mi. SW of Ft. Bragg SITREP: Special Forces Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape Training “Where is the other team!? We can sit here and beat the shit outta you all damn day meaker, all you gotta do is spill your guts.” “Meaker,…

  • Zack Don’t Surf

    Date: May 25, 20– Time: 1737 hours Sit Rep: Small Special ops detachment sent in to recon and secure situation inside Baghdad. All other Mechanized, Airborne, and regular Infantry are to move outside of city, secure perimeter. Orders stand to eliminate ANY trying to escape city; Living or Dead. The rotor wash of a passing…

  • Stir Crazy

    Buck crept through the dim bedrooms of his now sagging and decaying home. He placed each foot carefully, testing each step and spreading his weight heel to toe. He gripped the pump of his shotgun and dabbed the sweat from his nose before taking another step. He rested for a moment and listened to the…

  • Click…

    The rain outside had begun to slow, an unfortunate lull in the storm passing over northern Florida. The sounds of the rain were slowly being replaced by the moaning of the dead outside the sergeant’s hotel room. The skinless fingers clawing at the door…. Why wont they stop? Why wont they leave? I haven’t uttered…

  • Not Yet

    Fitz and Eve were meant for each other. In another time they would have been… Wait. There’s no use in dwelling upon the could have beens or the should have beens. They are all gone, burnt up and laid low. This was not another time. It was this time; the hard present, the cruel reality.…

  • Paralysis

    Anderson was a cripple. He had lived his life in a chair. When the dead came, the news said to stay indoors and stay quiet. Anderson did as he was told. He couldn’t speak anyway. A few days after the outbreak, the power died. The lights faded away, one by one till none were left.…