Contemporary Web Novels & Independent Apocalypse Stories

Amanda spent her life sacrificing for people who betrayed her. When a tsunami floods the city, her cheating husband Eric throws her out to die as sharks hunt the streets. She wakes thirty days before the apocalypse—with all her memories and a mysterious Survival System. This time she freezes her family’s money, cuts off her stepsister, and builds an impenetrable fortress. But when the world collapses, desperate voices scream outside her locked gates. Among them is the man from her past… and the husband who once left her to drown. Will she open the gates—or watch them all die?

Bai Yanlong reset her life to three days before apocalypse. She would have liked to rip a new one to novel gods for giving her such a short time, but she hasn't got the time. Not that she can do much if there was more time. After all, she's but a poor college student from a middle class family. Now if only she could catch all the super powers in the world... What is this? she got the super powers? ... This doesn't sound right.. she has never been this lucky.. oh.. Wait a minute why did that door handle vanish? she was sure it was there in middle of that door. It was only when she looked up that she understood. No good things ever comes with out a price...

Synopsis Elena Voss opened her doors to her boyfriend and closest friend when the apocalypse hit, offering them shelter in the chaos. In return, they betrayed her—secretly together, twisting her mind with lies, then locking her away so they could seize her home and every supply she had gathered. She broke free and endured eight merciless years of catastrophic floods, scorching heatwaves, corrosive acid rain, and nights that never seemed to end… only to die at their hands over one meager energy bar. Reborn with a mysterious spatial storage ability and a second chance at life, Elena returns stronger. This time she will hoard resources, shield the people who matter, and destroy the traitors who once destroyed her.

Darkness and fear reign supreme in Fiadh's life. The only light Fiadhs has is her broken mother, who tries to protect her from her father's wrath. But even Fiadh's mother isn't strong enough to protect Fiadh from her mysterious illness. With each day, Fiadh is growing weaker, and the options on how to stay alive are growing slimmer. Just as the clock is about to strike midnight on Fiadh's life, her mother makes a split-second decision to send her off planet.

Hazel Sinclair thought she had everything she needed to survive the end of the world. She had a man she loved, a best friend she trusted with her life, and a mother she believed would always stand by her. But when an apocalyptic disaster plunges the world into an endless freezing chaos, Hazel discovers that the people closest to her are the most dangerous threats she has ever faced. As temperatures drop below survival levels and cities become buried beneath ice and snow, Hazel is betrayed by her lover, betrayed by her best friend, and abandoned by her own mother. They take the supplies she worked so hard to gather and leave her behind to die in the freezing wasteland. Hazel dies alone, filled with regret for every sacrifice she made for people who never deserved her loyalty. Then she opens her eyes. She has been reborn a few months before the apocalypse begins. This time, Hazel remembers everything....the deadly freeze, and the people who will eventually turn against her. More importantly, she is no longer the naïve woman who believed blood and love were enough to guarantee loyalty. Hazel begins preparing for the apocalypse in secret with Ethan Ford, the only man who believes in her. She cuts ties with the people who betrayed her, gathers food and survival supplies, secures a place no one can take from her, and builds the strength she lacked in her previous life. But as the countdown to the freezing apocalypse begins, Hazel realizes something terrifying. The disaster will be far worse this time. And the people who abandoned her in her previous life will soon come crawling back, begging Hazel to save them. Only this time, Hazel has no intention of saving anyone who chose to leave her behind.

Shantali Jackson awakens from cryostasis to discover she's been asleep for over 600 years. A working-class woman from the pre-collapse era, she finds herself in a sterile medical facility, where staff address her as royalty and claim she's the beloved of Prince Costa—a man she barely remembers meeting at Le Glow Club one fateful night. As fragmented memories surface, Shantali learns the devastating truth: she and Costa were never willing participants in the preservation program. After publicly defying their arranged marriages to choose each other, they were declared enemies of the state and forcibly preserved by the Emergency Preservation Committee. They've been awakened seventeen times for six centuries, only to have their memories wiped when they refused to comply with the Council's genetic breeding program. This time is different—the memory suppression technology is failing, and ghostly echowisps (manifestations of psychic trauma) guide them through their escape. With the help of Marcus, a resistance member, they flee to the underground networks where Shantali discovers shocking truths: her half-brother Elliot became a resistance leader, Costa's parents have been working to undermine the Council for centuries, and the outside world has been habitable for generations. The couple escapes to Haven's Gate, one of seven thriving Eastern Sanctuaries where humanity has rebuilt naturally. But freedom is short-lived when they learn Dr. Thorne and other preservation specialists are using extracted consciousness data to create a new form of control—artificial minds programmed for obedience. Refusing to remain passive victims, Shantali and Costa make a bold choice: they'll pose as desperate refugees seeking re-preservation, walking willingly into Dr. Thorne's trap to stop his plans once and for all. Their love story becomes humanity's last hope against a system that would sacrifice free will for genetic perfection. A tale of choice, resistance, and the power of love.

Sienna Vale died outside a locked shelter while the people she spent her entire life protecting watched from the other side of the door. Her husband chose his family. His family chose themselves. And Sienna paid the price. Then she wakes up. Sixty days before the apocalypse. The world is still normal. Supermarkets are full. Banks are open. Her husband is still cheating. Nobody believes the end is coming. But Sienna remembers everything. The heat waves. The floods. The blackouts. The riots. The starvation. And the night she froze to death. This time, she won’t save them. She divorces her husband, takes back her money, buys everything she needs, and begins building a fortress far from the city. Then a mysterious ability awakens inside her. A private space where she can store anything. Food. Water. Medicine. Fuel. Equipment. Everything she needs to survive. But someone notices her preparations. Adrian Black is a former military intelligence officer who knows Sienna is hiding something. He doesn’t know that she has already lived through the end of the world. He doesn’t know that she remembers dying. And he certainly doesn’t know that the woman he’s falling for may be the key to understanding why the apocalypse happened in the first place. Sienna has sixty days to prepare. When the world finally ends, everyone will come looking for her. But this time…she decides who gets through the door.