Living with the Dead Series by Joshua Guess
Living with the Dead #1
With Spring Comes the Fall
Joshua Guess
Living With the Dead is a story told in real time that chronicles a small group of survivors before and during the zombie apocalypse. Told in the voice of primarily one man, with occasional offerings from a few of the other survivors, this collection is a thrilling look into the mind of a regular guy who is forced by circumstance to make impossible choices. When the dead walk the earth, the only option left for the survivors is to learn how to truly live.
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Living with the Dead #2
Living With the Dead: The Bitter Seasons
Joshua Guess
Living With the Dead is a serialized story set in real time at the beginning of and during the zombie apocalypse. This volume collects the second six months of the story's first year. As the group of survivors in Kentucky grows and the compound evolves into a true community, new hope rises. The struggle to live has become a cooperative effort by many to build something new. Though the threat of the zombie hoards and violent marauders is ever-present, the citizens of the compound discover new allies and friends, and new hope. The effort of merely existing fades as the growing community discovers that it is possible to truly live in a world of the dead.
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Living with the Dead #3
Living With the Dead: The Hungry Land
Joshua Guess
One year after the zombie plague ravaged humanity in what would become known as The Fall, the survivors in Kentucky struggle on. They have faced swarms of undead and war with living men, but in the third collection of the story they face their most powerful enemy yet. Each other. Written in journal format (in this case, as a blog), Living With the Dead is the day-to-day story of life and living in the zombie apocalypse. Told in real time, you can join the narrator in the struggle to survive, to unite, and to build again while faced with danger, betrayal, and dwindling resources. In a world of the dead, the only option is to learn how to truly live.
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Living with the Dead #4
Living With the Dead: The Wild Country
Joshua Guess
Bonus Material: "An Ode To Brains", a short story by the author.In the latter half of the second year after The Fall, mankind is beginning to grow once again. The survivors in Frankfort, Kentucky have battled the undead, thrown off attacks from human oppressors, and finally managed to achieve something like peace. Keeping the tenuous alliances and friendships with other distant settlements strong has become vitally important. Though many colonies of living people have been created from the ashes of civilization, the land between is deadly. In this volume, travel along dangerous roads to new locations, meet others who have made their stand against the end of the world. See an America destroyed by chaos, but populated with a people defiant in the face of the end of all they knew.
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