Shortlisted · Contest #338
Moral Bankruptcy
A professor enters a restricted library collection and finds a book of unsettling cases. The more closely he reads, the harder it becomes to keep moral judgment at a comfortable distance.
Shortlisted · Reedsy contest #219
The Exodus of the Corporate Zombies
A commuter suspects that office life has turned everyone into the walking dead. When a blackout brings the city to a halt, the machinery of his ordinary day finally breaks down.
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- Speculative fiction / Horror
- Setting
- New York City during a blackout
- Themes
- Routine, alienation, awakening
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The story
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Sam moves from train platform to basement office with the conviction that the people around him are barely alive. The routines are familiar: the commute, the meetings, the stale coffee. Then the power fails across the city, and an interruption he cannot manage from behind a desk forces him into a different kind of day.
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