I look after the farm with little help, and I'm sure you can imagine me doing that. However, I'm not writing to tell you about the farm. I writing to let you know where I am, or at least where I will be. They have found me, and their bloody teeth are gnawing at the door. Maybe I will make it out alive, but I'm sure you'll know if I don't.
A virus destroys Equestrian civilization, and all that remains are the accounts of lucky survivors. Of course, they weren't lucky, nor did they survive very long.
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A narrative pieced together entirely by individual letters of various ponies throughout the history of the plague. The letters are not in chronological order.
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Something I decided to write instead of working on my other fics. No art because there isn't anything that looks like what I want to write.
Genuinely creepy. Might even be realistic, though who knows until the plague comes?
Thumbs up for creating something horrifying yet compelling.
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Thank you! I am legitimately surprised by the sudden influx of likes. I did intend for it to be a one-shot with the first letter being the only chapter, but I decided I wanted to have a full narrative told in a disjointed way.
I want the reader to piece together the virus' spread and how everything was affected at different times.
Fairly chilling. Do continue, please.
The journal entry style for this story works perfectly with it. Keep up the good work!
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Thanks. That's what I thought too. I do think that someone will get turned away by it though, as well as the order of events. I mean, I basically had the end as the beginning, and the outcome of the plague is already established.
However, to contradict myself, the journey for this is rather fun and carries on to the end.
This is a really cool writing style.
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It is an experiment for me. I do like writing in journal format a lot, since you just have to write thoughts and actions and details of everything aren't important.
4940955 i'm gonna definitely try that out sometime
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You should. It's actually difficult to fill up the chapters with content since you leave out all the actions and most detail. It's a single character's thoughts on the important things in their day, so it becomes an exercise in writing with the icing of a story (since character thoughts are the icing of a writing cake, and details are the cake itself).
4941034 Is that a challenge?
Accepted!
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Have fun!
Brittish I see?
I really like this.
It's the fic I've been waiting forever for.
A "World War Z" fic / fic like WWZ that stays accurate to the feel and storytelling of the book.
I can't tell you how much I love these Plague Inc.-esc Stories!!!
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Um.. no? I'm not sure what you're asking.
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Not a WWZ crossover. I've never read it or seen the movie so I can't disagree with your statement on the similarities about writing. However, I know the book has gotten good reviews, so I'll take this as a compliment.
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The movie is garbage.
The book is a series of stories and documents that tell the overarching story of what occurred and humanity's reaction to it, what we lost, how we adapted, and how we won "World War Z".
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Sounds like something I'll add to my "Read it when I finish everything else I'm reading" list.
I didn't plan on having documents, but now it looks like a new prospect has emerged. 
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I don't remember specific documents, it's mostly interviews.
Like one is from basically a requisitions officer who reads off a root beer bottle label and where each ingredient was sourced from to underline how fucked the US was (would be), and what his job was, making do with what was at hand (implementing the "RtK" (resource to kill) ratio).
So in essence you have a similar premise (stories disconnected from one another but providing a timeline of the "war" and a more global storytelling) but using the stories of the ddead instead of interviews with the living.
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