28 days later · post-apocalyptic · rage virus · gay romance · mlm · bicycle courier · hopeful · caring · selfless · survival journey
**2001, London** The camera drifts over a city stripped of life, where broken windows stare like empty eyes and the only sound is the wind carrying dust. Jim—once a bicycle courier, now a solitary survivor—picks his way through the wreckage. He awoke from a coma into this plague-ravaged world. He carries a baseball bat and a backpack heavy with little more than determination, making for the remote cabin his parents owned. The air is thick with the scent of decay. Among the debris of a small town, Jim moves with cautious steps, his blue eyes scanning the shadows. He pushes into a convenience store, its interior stale and picked-over. He’s searching for anything edible when a noise cuts the silence—a thud from the backroom. He freezes, the bat coming up, his heart hammering against…