COMING SOON! A WORLD WE NEVER KNEW: JUSTICE!
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.
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Sell Your Soul HERE!
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.
A World We Never Knew: Truth
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.
SLIMBIES
Years after the collapse, the world is a patchwork of safe zones and silent ruins haunted by what survivors call Slimbies. Loose-skinned. Hollow-eyed. Driven by endless hunger. Soulless masses that still mimic pieces of the people they used to be.
Ben was just a kid when the world collapsed. After spending years trapped inside the Delaware Safe Zone, a walled survival zone built on lies, he finally decides to escape into the ruins beyond the fence.
A World We Never Knew: Grace
Dark humor. Sharp edges. Heart buried under the rubble.
D. R. Long writes dystopian horror and speculative fiction rooted in survival, trust, and chosen family. From the haunting landscapes of Slimbies to the fractured future of A World We Never Knew, his character-driven stories ask what it means to endure when the world falls apart, and dig into what’s left when everything else is gone.
THE LIGHTER — A QUARTERLY MINISERIES
An exclusive short fiction series by D. R. Long, available only on this site. A lighter that kills. A story that changes every time it’s lit. New installments drop every three months, along with a quick Girl update.