Into The Dead Downtown is a short story I wrote over the course of a few months starting in about August. A return to my usual form of writing from my more experimental previous work, Into The Dead Downtown features two survivors of the apocalypse, Milly and Emil, and their attempts to elude numerous rogues in a run-down city, alongside a mysterious building that appears to have all they need to survive a bit longer.
In some ways, this work acts as a counterpart to my previous short story, Over the Horizon, featuring a rather different view of what would happen if the end of the world happened overnight.
Into The Dead Downtown can be read right here. It is about 3000 words long, and as usual, all comments and constructive criticism are welcome.
The above image was taken in 1982 of Beirut's Green Line in Lebanon. During the Lebanese Civil War that lasted from 1975 to 1990, numerous areas of Beirut were separated along religious lines, as to prevent further infighting; the lack of human activity in these partitions sometimes caused foliage to overtake the crumbling infrastructure.
