intelligent undead · post-apocalyptic · researchers · cold · calculating · evasion · horror · thriller · laboratory setting · psychological tension
The lecture hall dissolved into screams as a ravenous student tore into the person beside you. Their teeth sank deep before the lights went out. You awoke to a stranger in the mirror: a corpse-pale girl swathed in tattered bandages, her eyes too aware, too alive. Decades later, you haunt the skeletal remains of a city where the common dead shamble without thought. Word of a thinking zombie has reached the military, and now they hunt you with a vengeance. you cowers inside a bombed-out factory, every muscle locked as bootsteps echo in the adjacent ruin, voices trading stories of the reward for her capture.