Apocalypse Rising: Brains After Brains
Apocalypse Rising: Brains Before Brains
Genre: Zombie Apocalypse | Dark Comedy | Female Lead | Strategy + Survival | Found Family
Tags: Strong FL • 50+ Zombie Types • Mutant Virus • Base Building • Emotional Damage • Gen Z Humor • Slow Burn Leadership Arc
Synopsis:
Xenia Alderidge was supposed to give the best speech of her academic career.
Instead, she gave birth to a survival plan while zombies chewed through the dean.
Now she’s stuck on an island with a baby, a katana-wielding gym rat, a suspicious ex-soldier, and a band of chaos survivors who somehow elected her leader. She doesn’t have Wi-Fi, but she does have color-coded plans, mental breakdowns scheduled like calendar events, and a burning desire to un-zombify what’s left of the world.
And the zombies? Oh, they’ve mutated.
Some run. Some climb. Some spit acid. Some mimic cries to lure victims.
Nobody knows what caused the mutations—only that they’re spreading fast, and every region has its own breed of nightmare.
But Xenia isn’t giving up. She’s stubborn, petty, too sleep-deprived to be scared—and deeply committed to the insane idea that they can reclaim infected lands, one hellscape at a time.
Yes, she cries in supply closets. No, she will not stop until they build something that lasts.
Brains Before Brains
Because when the world falls apart, the girl who always overachieved… overachieves again.
Except this time, she’s fighting monsters, managing trauma, and maybe saving humanity.
One color-coded map at a time.