Before Dawn

Michael is a thirty-year-old video game designer and passionate gamer. Life is ordinary. Routine, games, work... Nothing more, nothing less. Until that damn day when he decides to play the new level, Before Dawn, in his favorite virtual reality role-playing game, Zombie Deluge. What he doesn't know is that on that day, he won't simply be stepping into a virtual-or perhaps not so virtual-fight for survival. He will be forced to question his very existence.

Kipseli, the neighborhood he calls home, and the world as he knows it, or thinks he knows it, begin to crumble under the relentless tide of ravenous zombies. Desperate to understand whether what he is living through is a game, reality, or something else entirely, to piece together fragmented memories, and above all to survive, Michael slowly comes to realize one unsettling truth: nothing is quite what he thought it was.

The first in a series of six LitRPG novellas.