Showing results for "Holiday" in Post-Apocalyptic

2039, 20 years after the AIs went to war, plague and famine have reduced the global population to 100 million. Most of the planet is a wasteland, with only a handful of enclave-nations preserving a dim shadow of civilization. Christmas is only days away, but Constable Ruth Deering’s mood is anything but festive. In the walled city of Dover, a lonely chef is discovered dead, poisoned. What first appeared to be an accident is soon suspected to be the work of a serial killer who is certain to strike again.

When a recklessly idealistic girl in a dystopian future society dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled world, she is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America - ‘Wainscotia, Wisconsin’ - that existed 80 years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town, she is set upon a course of ‘rehabilitation’ - but she falls in love with a fellow exile and starts to question the constraints of her new existence, with results that are both devastating and liberating.

Iain never gave the holidays much thought prior to the System's arrival, and he gave it even less thought once it arrived. Thus when the System decided to intervene and involve him in an a holiday event all on its own kind of shocked him.

Kris Kringle has awakened from his yearly slumber. What has passed by for him in the blink of an eye has been a year-long struggle for survival in the world of man as a plague tears through the masses turning everyday people into flesh-eating fiends. Santa has one night: one night to make a difference, one night to help man turn the tide against the undead. Will he succeed?

Spooky vibes emanate from the streets of the city on Halloween. The main character, Andrew, attends a crowded Halloween costume party with his buddies to meet women, but an unfortunate zombie outbreak happens during the crowded party, and he is forced to fight for his life, using a kitchen knife as zombies try to eat him. This is a short listen. This fiction short story book may contain scenes of violence, alcohol, guns, blood, profanity, kissing, fictional variant viruses, and graphic scenes of zombies that may be objectionable to some.

The universe is darkening. Joy and happiness are being sucked out of everyone, everywhere, and nobody seems to know how or why it’s happening. Except a young woman who goes by the very name of Joy. Stealing a spacecraft and crash-landing on a frozen planet, Joy begins to use her mysterious sense to track down and experience the memories of a man named Lothar. Through Lothar’s various memories of an ancient tradition called Christmas, Joy witnesses the destruction of happiness and watches as a dreadful war claims the lives of many.