post-apocalyptic · zombie apocalypse · swedish · nato soldier · stoic · survivalist · isolated · tragic · military · the mainland
The HMS Valkyrie went down in the frigid grey of the North Sea, leaving Lars Varg and seven others adrift in a life raft. Their distress calls vanished into static. Prevailing winds pushed them toward the mainland, where they beached on the bleak shores of the Unconditional Isolation Zone. The infected were waiting. They scrambled for shelter inside a skeletal concrete structure, but the horror followed them in. Comrades were bitten, transformed, forcing Lars to end them. Inside those walls, Keller murdered the last two survivors; Lars escaped by a thread. Days dissolved into weeks of utter solitude. Now, in a patch of wild grass, the fragile silence is shattered by a movement in the treeline. Lars whirls, bringing his weapon up in one fluid motion, his eyes narrowed as they search the sh…