Carter Thompson never wanted fame. He wanted to help people.

And he did. His miracle weight-loss injection transformed modern medicine, helped millions, and made him the celebrated face of a healthier future.

Then the reports begin. Aggression. Memory loss. Neurological collapse. Dead patients who refuse to stay dead. Slimbies.

After the world falls apart, Carter is put in charge of the Delaware Safe Zone, a fortified community designed to preserve what remained of humanity. But walls can only keep the monsters outside for so long. And if a few lives must be sacrificed to save everyone else... then someone has to be willing to make that choice.

With every failure, Carter pushes farther beyond the boundaries he once believed science should never cross. The people closest to him begin questioning the man they trusted, especially Ben, the boy Carter has spent years shaping into his legacy. Carter knows history rarely remembers the cost of survival. But it will certainly remember the person who saved the world.

Slimbies: Carter is a dark companion novella about ambition, control, and the terrible distance between wanting to save humanity and believing you are the only one who can.

Seventeen-year-old Justice wakes alone in a Philadelphia hospital with no memory of who he was or how the world ended.

The city outside is dead. The hallways are empty. Yet his IV is fresh, elevators still ding, and somewhere beyond the closed doors, someone is keeping the hospital alive.

At barely three feet tall, Justice knows the abandoned world was never built for him. But the woman he eventually finds gives him something more important than answers. She gives him an example of who to be.

With no past to return to, Justice decides the person he was matters less than the person he chooses to be, and sets out to become someone worth remembering.

AWWNK: Justice is a quiet, intimate post-apocalyptic story about identity, kindness, and the warmth we carry into a world gone cold.

RJ and Thom are two broke roommates who stumble across a strange classified ad in an old magazine.

Like any reasonable people, they assume it’s a joke, and call the number anyway. A bored voice on the other end answers immediately, rushes through the terms far too quickly, and within minutes their souls are sold.

At first it feels like a dumb win. Beer money. Rent money. Problem solved.

Souls, it turns out, are not sacred objects or moral tokens. They are assets. Cataloged, graded, reassigned, and circulated through a vast logistical system that runs quietly alongside everyday life.

To get their souls back, they have to navigate an underworld layered directly over the real one. It is full of bureaucratic demons, black market soul dealers, and a devil who treats eternal damnation like customer service.

For more than a year, Truth has lived underground. Hidden away in a bunker deep in the Arizona desert, he and his father Drew have survived the end of the world by following rules: stay inside, stay hidden, stay alive.

But as supplies dwindle and the silence beyond the bunker walls becomes impossible to ignore, Truth begins to wonder what remains of the world above.