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I'm in Survival Hell, You're in Party Heaven

I'm in Survival Hell, You're in Party Heaven

Cerita Pendek · Emotional Realism
Oleh:  Sugar BeansTamat
Bahasa: English
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Sinopsis

Familial Bond

After Death

Plot Twists

Bias

Hypocrisy

Regret

Family Emotions

For as long as I can remember, my family and I have been living in an underground basement that's completely shut off from the outside world. My parents have told me that the zombie apocalypse is terrorizing the outside world. The air is completely plagued with the zombie virus, and we'll die if we ever leave the basement. In order to save the supplies—which are already dwindling, to begin with—I've starved myself to the point I'm all skin and bones despite being only 18 years old. When I realize that there's only one last can of food left, I leave behind a suicide note. "Mom, Dad, now there's one less mouth to feed. You'll last a few more days." After that, I slit my wrist right away. Once I'm dead, my soul phases through the thick and heavy metal door. Bright sunlight illuminates the entire world. It's a beautiful, peaceful world filled with greenery. I can even hear birds chirping in the distance. Mom, Dad, and a bunch of people are throwing a barbecue party on the lawn. The mouth-watering smell of food being grilled permeates the air. So, it turns out that the zombie apocalypse is just a lie that's designated to trap me inside the fortress. I'm the only one who has died in this sunny, peaceful world.

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Justme
Justme
very good one, and very different from the usual mistress cheating spouses stories here. keep up the good work author!
2026-02-18 03:11:35
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LzyGmr
LzyGmr
this was actually really good.
2026-02-13 10:34:38
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Chapter 1
"This ribeye is cooked just right. Leave it a minute longer, and it'll be too tough to chew. Gerald, give it a taste."A familiar voice drifted to me. I floated in midair, eyes fixed on the man raising a glass of red wine. It was Dad.He wore casual clothes and was relaxed in a way I had never seen before. The woman beside him, dressed in a silk gown and cutting her steak with quiet grace, was Mom."Not bad at all." Gerald Calcraft, a heavyset man, swallowed his beef and gave a thumbs-up."You two really know how to live it up. This place is gorgeous."I looked down at my transparent hands. Ten minutes ago, those same hands had been soaked in blood.Down in that moldy basement, I had been sawing at my wrist with the sharp edge of a tin can, bit by bit, so they could have one more meal. The pain tore through my whole body.I thought I was doing something brave. I thought I was saving my parents."Speaking of which…" Gerald set down his wine glass and pointed at the lawn beneath
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Chapter 2
Everyone set down their glasses and cutlery and turned their chairs toward the screen. Dad tapped a few buttons on his tablet, and the image flickered before sharpening into focus."Highlights From the Past 72 Hours." The title was bold and red.On screen, I was on my knees, tongue pressed against the joint of a water pipe, lapping up the droplets that seeped through. The water tasted of rust and rot. But I drank greedily, desperately. I just wanted to stay alive.A low murmur of appreciation rippled across the lawn."Oh wow, look at that survival instinct. It's almost perfect."A woman with glasses pushed her frames up her nose, eyes glued to the screen. "The way she's positioned, she's completely let go of any sense of dignity. It's just pure animal instinct."Dad stood beside the screen like a museum curator, laser pointer in hand. The red dot landed on my dirty face."Everyone, pay close attention to her eyes." He traced a small circle around my eye sockets with the laser.
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Chapter 3
The speakers blared to life, filling the air with growling, snarling, and the scrape of claws against metal, all of it piled on top of each other in a way that made everyone's skin crawl.It was probably some kind of custom sound effect my parents had paid good money to have made. Even out here on the sunlit lawn, it was enough to set anyone's nerves on edge.The guests shifted uneasily in their chairs. A few of the women clapped their hands over their ears."That's incredibly realistic. You've got some serious equipment here, Mr. Sands." The bald man let out a dry laugh, covering up his discomfort.On screen, the image started shaking violently, a simulation of something slamming into the walls. Dad stood over the monitor, brow creasing as he watched. The thin figure curled up in the corner didn't move, not a single flinch."Something's off," Dad muttered, more to himself than anyone, his fingers tapping rapidly across the control panel."The adrenaline should be spiking right n
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Chapter 4
They reached the second door. Mom stopped and called for the housekeeper."Bring out a few gas masks. One for everyone."Mom held her hand over her nose. "The ventilation system down there is fine, but that kid's hygiene has been absolutely atrocious lately. It's going to smell terrible down there. I don't want anyone feeling unwell."The group put on the masks with giggles and grins, like they were getting ready for a costume party. Someone even struck a pose."Do I look like that guy from that zombie video game?"Mom fastened hers on. "Let's make this quick. The food upstairs is going to get cold."The pressure valve hissed open, and immediately a wall of stench hit them through the gap in the door, rot and blood and waste all fermenting together in the enclosed space for three days straight.Dad's brow tightened. Even he hadn't expected it to be this bad, though he recovered quickly, smoothing his expression back into place."This is what survival smells like, folks. You all
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Chapter 5
The silence was absolute. The only sound was the occasional whisper of air through the ventilation ducts, like something hollow breathing in the dark.Dad's hand trembled around the flashlight. The beam swayed back and forth between the bloody words on the wall and my body on the floor, as though it was trying to deny what it was seeing. Whatever he had been about to say caught in his throat and came out as a strange, strangled sound.Mom's wine glass slipped from her fingers and shattered on the concrete. Dark red wine sprayed across her white dress in jagged, blooming stains.She stared at the words on the wall, her face frozen. The composed, untouchable mask she always wore had begun to crack, right down the middle. The calm superiority was gone, replaced by something raw and desperate."This doesn't make sense," she said, over and over.Her voice was scraped dry, like she was chewing on gravel. "The vitals were reading normal. Yesterday… Yesterday, the numbers were still movin
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Chapter 6
"One less mouth to feed. You will last a few more days."Dad read the words on the wall out loud, his lips trembling as he shaped each one. Every single word landed like a slap across the face he was so proud of.He had taught me selfishness, taught me coldness, taught me that in a world like this, all that mattered was keeping yourself alive. He truly believed he had built the perfect survivalist, someone who would do whatever it took to stay breathing.But instead, I died out of love, out of a blind belief in every single one of his lies. His precious survival rules had failed completely.The guests had stopped keeping their voices down. The whispers turned loud, laced with contempt and mockery."Someone actually died. This changes everything.""What kind of elite education is this? This is outright abuse.""The experiment is terribly designed. They didn't even handle the most basic survival conditions."The bald man spat on the ground and wiped his shoe on the concrete with
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Chapter 7
Dad was still fighting it. He straightened his glasses with one hand and tried to fall back on his usual talk about survival of the fittest."Officer, you don't understand."He knocked on the table. The handcuffs rattled, but his tone was still arrogant."Human evolution requires selection. The elimination of the weak is a law of nature. What I've been doing is conducting an important sociological experiment. In academic circles, some degree of loss is considered acceptable.""Shut up!"The young officer slammed his palm down on the table and stood up, pointing a finger right at Dad's face. "This isn't your lecture hall. You're a murderer!"What experiment? That's your own daughter! The law doesn't care about your evolution theory. Murder is murder!"That last shout shattered Dad's entire chain of logic. He opened his mouth, but nothing came out. His authority was gone. On the bench of law and morality, all of his grand theories didn't amount to anything.The next day, the stor
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Chapter 8
A few days later, the power went out. No one had paid the bill, so the electricity company cut them off. Darkness flooded in like a tide and swallowed the mansion whole, the same place that had once been blazing with light. The only thing left was the pale moonlight coming through the windows, falling cold and thin across the floor. It was exactly like the basement.Mom lit a candle, but her hands were shaking so badly the flame kept dancing, stretching the shadows long and strange across the walls, like fingers reaching out. Dad sat hunched in a corner, unshaven, his eyes sunk deep into his face.He hadn't eaten in three days. It wasn't that there was nothing to eat. He simply couldn't get it down. Every time he closed his eyes, all he saw was the rust water that had filled my stomach.Mom stared at Dad's face and suddenly screamed. "Stay back! Stay back!"She grabbed a vase off the table and hurled it at him. It shattered at his feet."Have you lost your mind?" Dad leapt up an
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Chapter 9
The basement door was pushed open. The smell hit them like a wall, thick and suffocating, the same as it had been days before. But the two of them walked right through it, like they couldn't even smell it. They walked in, unsteady on their feet.Everything inside was exactly the way it had been left after the forensic team finished. The blood on the floor had dried and hardened into dark, black patches.Mom walked over to the corner, the one where my body had been found. She bent down and picked up the torn T-shirt I had been wearing when I died, and pulled it over her own head, right over her silk blouse.It was the kind of thing that no designer dress could ever replace. She curled herself into that same corner, wrapped her arms around her knees, and folded into the exact same position I had been in when they found me."This way I can feel her data," she said, and let out a strange, breathless laugh.She pressed her cheek against the freezing concrete wall, rubbing it against th
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