Saving the Living Dead at Dusk

Here’s a dark joke for you: Why is it impossible to wake up one day and find the world overrun by zombies? Because humanity has nuclear weapons. Why must aliens stay confined to Area 51? Because humanity has nuclear weapons. Why can’t the five permanent members of the Security Council go to war with each other? Because humanity has nuclear weapons... In short, the world is so peaceful, the air so fresh, all because humanity has nuclear weapons. This is a work of hard science fiction. There are no power-ups, no fighting monsters, no leveling up—just ordinary people struggling to survive when the zombie tide arrives ‘slowly.’ If possible, this story will be written in four parts. P.S.: In keeping with an old, much-criticized habit, updates will total sixty thousand words each month. Custom tags by the author: ordinary people, grim, zombies, students