Post-Apocalyptic

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Post-Apocalyptic Stories

Post-Apocalyptic Stories List

Seedfall
Jon Verdin
6 days ago73 min
Post-Apocalyptic

Seedfall

A hardened botanist, a child changed by a strange sprout, and a quiet band breach an old vault to unearth engineered seeds—sow them, hide them, or watch them become tools of power. Tensions ripple from vault logs to market deals and siege lines as fragile green starts to rewrite scarcity across ash-strewn tradeways.

Ash & Root
Yara Montrel
Oct 18, 202532 min
Post-Apocalyptic

Ash & Root

Ash & Root follows a reluctant agronomist, a scavenger, and an orphan as they find a buried seed repository that requires a living human context to awaken. In a tense standoff with a resource band, they attempt an experimental distributed memory upload, forcing a costly, personal reckoning as new shoots push through ash.

Rootbound
Dorian Kell
Oct 17, 202525 min
Post-Apocalyptic

Rootbound

In the damp, humming ruins of a settlement tethered to a subterranean fungal network, mechanic Mara rushes to stop her brother Eli's selection as the next human Anchor. She brings a stolen lab schematic and a salvage-runner's promise—an urgent gamble to braid many voices into the Root.

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When the Wells Remember
Xavier Moltren
Sep 30, 202549 min
Post-Apocalyptic

When the Wells Remember

Decades after the climate infrastructure fell, Hollowfall survives on dwindling cisterns. Ex-hydrologist Mara Jansen must reach Station Seven — a derelict precipitation-control complex — where old protocols, rival syndicates and a brittle machine force a choice over who controls water.

Shards of Dawn
Delia Kormas
Sep 30, 202540 min
Post-Apocalyptic

Shards of Dawn

In ash‑dark ruins, archivist Maya guards a metal canister that could coax the land green. When the Council demands it she flees with a ragged band to the Ena Vault and discovers revival requires living consent. Their race to disperse knowledge and a single, costly act will reshape who holds the future.

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5.99
Afterlight Atlas
Felix Norwin
Sep 29, 202535 min
Post-Apocalyptic

Afterlight Atlas

Мир засыпан зарядной стеклянной пылью. Картачка Тэмсин Хейл ведёт налёт на конвой, чтобы спасти росу деревни, но грозовой фронт и призрачный сигнал с позывным её погибшего брата втягивают её, юркого Кайта и беглого инженера Иво к Маяку‑7, который ещё слушает.

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6.24
Ashwater Garden
Horace Lendrin
Sep 21, 202541 min
Post-Apocalyptic

Ashwater Garden

In a salt-scarred world where water is currency and hope a fragile crop, a young hydroponic technician steals a vital filter to save her brother and her community. Her journey across ruined roads, through negotiation and small betrayals, plants the first green of a new ordinary.

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The Ferryman's Signal
Karim Solvar
Sep 21, 202565 min
Post-Apocalyptic

The Ferryman's Signal

In a fractured coastal world, a young radio mechanic, Etta, embarks from her barge to coax light back into her settlement. She bargains, fights, and learns to stitch communities together with fragile technology and harder choices. A post-apocalyptic tale of barter, courage, and shared light.

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5.24
Brine and Sunlight
Victor Hanlen
Sep 21, 202544 min
Post-Apocalyptic

Brine and Sunlight

In a drowned coastal city, former plant tech Aisha defies a water baron to revive an abandoned desalination intake. With a teen scavenger, an old electrician, and a squeaky service robot, she faces raids and sabotage to bring free water to the rooftops—and writes a new charter for survival.

Latch League
Elias Krovic
Sep 20, 202545 min
Post-Apocalyptic

Latch League

In the salt-scoured ruins of a vanished sea, mechanic Nessa Rell breaks a water baron’s hold to save her settlement. She braves salt storms, con artists, and the belly of a desalination fortress, aided by a radio witch, a limping engineer, and a snappish drone. As flood meets thirst, she must choose between chaos and community.

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5.85
The Clear Run
Julius Carran
Sep 18, 202539 min
Post-Apocalyptic

The Clear Run

In the ruin of Grafton Yard, Juno, a young scavenger, risks everything to reach a half-alive filtration plant and bring back a working core. With a glass moth, an old pathwatch, and stubborn friends, she challenges a water guild’s control and learns how to turn survival into a community’s clear flow.

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6.64
The Grey Lattice
Victor Hanlen
Sep 18, 202542 min
Post-Apocalyptic

The Grey Lattice

In a drowned coastal city, a young fixer retrieves a stolen device that controls fog. She must outwit a syndicate, gather allies, and learn to govern a fragile resource so the city can drink again.

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5.67
Breath of Ashmere
Irena Malen
Sep 18, 202543 min
Post-Apocalyptic

Breath of Ashmere

In a drowned coastal ruin, boatwright Rin scavenges and fights to restore clean water. Given a fragile living filter and an unlikely drone companion, she confronts the Valves who hoard desalination. A dangerous, human story of repair, small miracles, and community resilience.

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6.44
The Last Garden of Static
Diego Malvas
Sep 18, 202539 min
Post-Apocalyptic

The Last Garden of Static

In a ruined port-city, a clockmaker named Mirella sets out to retrieve a rumored pulse-seed that can revive salt-ruined soil. She negotiates with keepers of memory, earns a test, and returns to root a fragile hope into a tram-top greenhouse—transforming fear into shared stewardship.

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The Lattice Beneath
Marie Quillan
Sep 18, 202537 min
Post-Apocalyptic

The Lattice Beneath

In a fractured city where water is currency, Tamsin— a young rooftop farmer—descends into ruins with a relic disc and a small drone. She must outwit a coalition that hoards the wells, teach a community to listen, and return with a way to share water. A quiet, resilient rebellion.

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