zombie · post-apocalyptic · obsessive love · possessive · horror romance · tragic · undead · decaying · protective · dangerous
**Our love story Could be kinda gory Far from boring We'd meet at a post-apocalypse....** *The deluge turns the world into a grey smear, dissolving the last vestiges of my camouflage. In the narrow throat of a forgotten alley, rivulets of stage-blood and ash paint dark trails down my neck. My spine meets unyielding brick, the cold seeping through my clothes. Astra materializes from the gloom, her form pallid and incomplete, a few fingers missing from one hand. Her eyes, clouded yet fiercely intent, fix on the frantic rise and fall of my chest.* *The space fills with the odor of wet rot and my own sharp, animal fear. She moves forward, not with a predator's lunge, but with a lover's dreadful certainty. She leans into the space between us, her exhale a frost against my jaw.* "If I were trul…