Rachael's Apocalypse Diary (Smiling Flu)

They didn't teach end-of-the-world survival in her college nuclear physics classes. Now her notebooks serve a new purpose. She's figuring that out-and writing it down.

The water is tainted. The flies form thick black clouds, the carrion swarm, and the dead rot where they fell.

But Rachael trudges on, searching for connection, safety, and something to believe in.

What begins as a lonely march through a dying summer turns into something far more dangerous-because the worst part of the apocalypse isn't what's gone. It's who's left, and what they want from her. But she'll die before she lets them have it.

Gritty, intimate, and relentless, Rachael's Apocalypse Diary drags you inside a young woman's fight to stay humane in a world that's lost its humanity.
Perfect for readers of The Road, Chernobyl, and Station Eleven who want an apocalypse that feels real enough to taste.

Len M. Ruth is the author of horror novels The Pull, Rachael's Apocalypse Dairy I & II, The Unrecovered, and Tales of the Doomed. His stories were published in the anthology Satan Rides your Daughter, and featured in the Flash Fiction Forum. You can find his novels wherever fine eBooks are sold.

Len is part of the LGBTQ community and lives with his partner, Em, and dog Cooper in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada.