COMING SOON

TRUTH COVER

COMING SOON! 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.

When a single act of curiosity changes everything, he finds himself forced into a journey across a dead America where phantom voices drift through empty gas stations, entire cities stand abandoned beneath gray skies, and survival depends on growing up faster than anyone ever should.

And for the first time since the world ended, Truth must decide who he wants to be when he gets there.

AWWNK: Truth is a coming-of-age story about growth, responsibility, and finding your place in a world that has already ended.

SLIMBIES COVER

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.

GRACE COVER

A World We Never Knew: Grace

In a fractured stretch of Delaware where the seasons change without warning, a small family clings to routine as the world quietly unravels around them. Jim. Carol. Mickey. And Grace. Grace has never seen the world, but she sees something the others don’t. Patterns. Rhythms. Something behind the storms that feels almost intentional. When violence shatters what little safety they have left, Grace leaves behind one final, impossible instruction: Find the bearded man. AWWNK: Grace is a journey through grief, memory, and the unsettling possibility that the world isn’t ending at all… …it’s being rewritten.

STAKE COVER

A Stake in Nottingham

William of Greave, the man better known as Robin Hood, was never the noble outlaw history loves to celebrate. He was a criminal, a survivor… and eventually a vampire. Now, centuries later, a television network has literally dug him up for a prime-time interview. What follows is not a love story, not a confession, and certainly not the version taught to schoolchildren.

Cover art for FAITH

A World We Never Knew: Faith

When the world begins to disappear, Faith feels it before anyone else. Faith is Deaf. She doesn’t hear the crashes or the screams. She feels the pressure shift. The vibration drop. After people vanish and the city collapses, she must navigate a broken world alone, relying on intuition and instinct.

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.

Books by D.R. Long