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Book / Fantasy

January 12, 2019

Reads: 612

Comments: 3

Shelves: 2

The Booksie Classic House

24 years after the Earth's population is wiped out by disease and war, several different groups strive for power, strength, and their very survival. This story focuses on a town of survivors, a cannibalistic cult calling themselves the Devout, and two brothers trying to find their place in this New… Read More

Tags: fantasy, science-fiction, plague, western, zombies

Short Story / Horror

December 29, 2018

Reads: 55

Comments: 3

Shelves: 2

The Abandoned House

It starts with one word, honeysuckle, spoken without even knowing it and soon turns into a plague that may just wipe out the human race as we know it. Written off a one-word prompt, honeysuckle. Read More

Tags: plague, prompt, infected, honeysuckle

I have a theory. It goes like this. Everything we do is about death. Everything. From reading a book to eating to sexing (that’s a real thing) to sitting at the back of the class in school learning maths. From the day we are born to the day we die,… Read More

Tags: death, humour, disease, history, plague

Taken from the archives of the Devout, these are the journals of David Braun, the Old Man introduced in the first chapter of GOLDEN AGE. A first-hand account of the disease, the wars, and of humanity at both its finest, and its worst. A companion piece to my main story,… Read More

Tags: family, plague, journal, diary, fake-history

A graduate student researching an unusual plague outbreak from the past awakens a horror that has lain dormant for centuries. Read More

Tags: horror, plague, demon, lisbon, portugal

Book / Other

October 04, 2018

Tags: plague

Death Is Approaching... Read More

Tags: death, war, mind, plague

When Isabella sees a middle aged woman dancing alone in the streets, she thinks it is a joke. But as more and more people join this woman in the strange flailing waltz that continues for days in the mid Summer heat, she begins to see something oddly supernatural and… Read More

Tags: history, plague, dance, novella, 1518

Short Story / Young Adult

July 28, 2018

Reads: 394

Comments: 9

Shelves: 5

The Booksie Classic House

Octaria Orion, youngest queen in the history of Verona, returns in a star-crossed romance that may lead to her doom. Read More

Tags: plague, martian-lovers, shakespearean-sci-fi-romance, half-angels-and-humans, joyshas

Featured Review by hullabaloo22

"Midsummer Night's Dream, with a touch of Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of Venice and an expanded army of Snow White' dwarfs. As David Bowie once as..." Read More

It is the fourteenth century anno Domini, and the plague is ravaging Europe. In a dark and damp room, deep inside a medieval hospital, there is a most troubled man. Read More

Tags: death, disease, plague, doctor

Have you always wondered what would happen to a clan if a unknown disease struck them? How would the strong warriors react? Would the clan fall apart in the turmoil or would it remain strong? In this story, we will follow four cats, each with their own… Read More

Tags: plague, apocolypse, warrior-cats

Short Story / Young Adult

April 21, 2018

Reads: 752

Comments: 5

Shelves: 4

The Booksie Classic House

Octaria Orion, science prodigy and youngest member of a covert operation, must restore her memories before evil destroys the red planet. Read More

Tags: love, plague, sci-fi, angels, mars

Featured Review by hullabaloo22

"Oh, Joy this put me in mind of some kind of Shakespeare/ Martian sci-fi tale. Maybe it was the names you chose but I think more the relationship..." Read More

A world devastated by plague, a family broken by loss, and a community driven by hope. Read More

Tags: death, disease, plague, 12

This is a first attempt at a sci-fi short story. I have currently only written a the introduction/first chapter, buy will hopefully add more as time goes by. Set during a 200 year war with a species claiming joint ancestry with humanity, the first chapter explores the… Read More

Tags: war, aliens, plague, invasion, disaster

Short Story / Science Fiction

February 02, 2018

Reads: 146

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

More and more it's appearing that Republicans cannot fairly win the 2018 elections. So will they try to win them by unfair means? Read More

Tags: plague, small-pox

In a plague driven universe ruled by fear and misery a simple guy who spent his life in the sewers is given a brief hope of freedom. Read More

Tags: fantasy, disease, plague, tragedy, plague-doctors

Book / Young Adult

July 31, 2017

Reads: 231

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

This is an excerpt from a book I've been writing for two years. Read More

Tags: depression, plague, dystopian, galaxies

This story was written on Sept 26, 2014. Facts, dates, names, places, events, and activities are true. Story was written around the facts. Read More

Tags: death, illness, plague, georgia, scream

A man finds himself in a world torn apart by a plague or suspected genetic mutation, and he and the other survivors must gather together to have any chance in facing the real monsters of this apocalypse. Read More

Tags: horror, plague, zombie, shortstory

Short Story / Humor

April 26, 2017

Reads: 262

Comments: 5

Shelves: 2

The Booksie Classic House

FEAR THE PLAGUE LICH. Please? Read More

Tags: ghost, plague, funny, haunted, lich

Tags: war, man, fire, plague, human

Short Story / Fantasy

March 10, 2017

Reads: 210

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A plague of seagulls hold a seaside town to ransom. Will the mysterious stranger be able to get rid of them? And at what cost? Read More

Tags: fantasy, legend, plague, modern-day

Tags: fantasy, plague, cemetery, gravedigger

Book / Horror

December 09, 2016

A 22306 is a date and name. Human evolution lead into worst generation of humans. Raising a unknown creature/Person to prepare a mysterious living puzzle to test human will to live and worthy of it. Read More

Tags: horror, science-fiction, virus, plague, biological-hazards

A terrible disease that kills nine out of ten people has spread across the world, and nobody knows why. Could it be terrorists? Could it be aliens? Could it be the government trying to control the population? Morrow and Bethany Scott are going to find out, risking their lives in… Read More

Tags: scary, war, virus, disease, plague

Frank lived with Dr. Johnson till the day he could not anymore, yet when he learned that the Dr. Johnson who raised and educated him isn't so perfect, Frank begins to see and live his life in a different way... Read More

Tags: history, plague, farmer, twisted-ending

After the world has fallen to the undead, a scavenger finds the journal of a man and starts to read the recounting of his horrible fate. Read More

Tags: horror, plague, undead

Edmund was a child once, not always a plague Doctor. Some say curiosity killed the cat...I say it sparked a crazed maniac's mind to discover more. (WARNING: Lots of anatomy speak and gore(?)) Read More

Tags: death, short, story, history, plague, art, gore, doctor, renaissance, dissection

One day The End of the world as we know it will arrive. War, disease, famine, it doesn't matter the cause. Now, look around and truly think about the people you know. Think about the words used to describe them. Most of us, in order to live a productive, somewhat… Read More

Tags: science_fiction, fiction, plague, apocalypse

Short Story / Horror

July 27, 2015

Reads: 316

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

The guard came behind and gave him a mighty whack across his head, cracking his skull. The mighty blow brought blood pouring across his face; he stumbled and fell into that stinking flesh of dead corpses. Read More

Tags: plague, london, years

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