The Dead Days Journal
by Sandra R Campbell
Publication date: March 30th 2015
Genres: Dystopia, New Adult
Publication date: March 30th 2015
Genres: Dystopia, New Adult
The daughter of a radical doomsday prepper, Leo Marrok spent her
entire life preparing for the end. A skilled fighter and perfect marksman, Leo
is her father’s second-in-command when Armageddon comes to pass. Together, they
lead a group of survivors to a secure bunker deep in the Appalachian Mountains.
Vincent Marrok is willing to take extreme measures to repopulate
their broken world. Leo’s refusal marks her as a traitor. With father and
daughter at odds for the first time, their frail community is thrust into
turmoil. Until the unthinkable happens, a blood-thirsty horde arrives. The
impending attack will destroy all that they have worked for.
To protect her home and everything she believes in, Leo puts her
faith in the arms of the enemy—a creature only rumored to exist—the one she
calls Halloween. An alliance born out of necessity evolves into feelings Leo is
ill-equipped to handle.
The Dead Days Journal is a post-apocalyptic story
of love and family told through Leo Marrok’s first-hand account and the pages
of Vincent’s personal journal, giving two very different perspectives on what
it takes to survive.
Mature themes, adult language, sexual situations, violence and
gore. 18+
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I’m alive, but I should be dead. I’m
moving but not walking… Someone’s carrying me.
The sounds of the forest were all around me, except there
wasn’t a single footstep rustling the forest floor. I only sensed the movement
through the person who held me—superior strength and superior grace. I felt his
powerful strides advancing as he clutched me to his solid chest, the strong
arms that cradled my damaged body.
Can the dead dream? No.
There was no way of knowing how long I’d been unconscious.
My memories were slow, spotty, coming back in short blasts of terror that
started with the recollection of my father’s demands for a grandchild. I
remembered running away, being attacked by a man in a mask, and waking up on
the ground alone, the hungry beast dropping out of the tree.
Are the attacker and the monster one
and the same?
I tried to recall the struggle. I’d stabbed the strange
monster in the gut and made it bleed.
I hurt it.
The monster had retaliated by taking a chunk out of my neck.
It hurt me back.
I cringed as I remembered the terror and the agony I felt
while it fed from my vein. An odd sort of throbbing in my neck quickened as my
heart raced. How am I still alive?
Panic stole my breath and uncontrollable twitches jerked at my limbs. The arms
holding me tightened in response, restraining my erratic movement.
Something slid past my lips into my mouth. I tried to turn
my head, working to keep my mouth clamped shut but failing. Nothing stopped the
intrusion, which I thought to be a finger, from the size and feel. Whatever he
forced me to eat left a sticky residue on my tongue that tasted sweet and
bitter, like a bad dessert wine. I wanted to open my eyes to see who carried me,
but I couldn’t. So I tried to call out, several times, but nothing came out of
my mouth.
He’s taking me somewhere I don’t want
to go.
“Is she going to be okay?” It was a
man’s voice, a voice I knew. I’m not in
the arms of the monster. Jack must have heard my screams. He saved me and
now he was taking me home to Ben. A sob of relief pushed past my lungs to
escape my mouth.
Sandra R. Campbell lives along the tranquil waters of
the Chesapeake Bay with her husband and weight challenged cat. She can
trace her passion for the macabre back to reading Edgar Allen Poe as
a child, with her pet crow, Big Fellow, by her side. She has since
submerged herself in a wide range of dark literature. An avid thrill
seeker, Sandra is always looking for her next big adrenaline rush, and
when spelunking, diving and monster hunting fails to deliver, she
turns to the creation of through-the-rabbit-hole worlds and sends her
characters on their own adventures. Sandra also writes children's stories,
is a member of the Maryland Writers' Association, the head of a
M.W.A. critique group, and the founder and co-author of Waterfrontwriters.com.
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Giveaway ends April 3, 2015 at 11:59p.m.
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