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The First Five Minutes of the Apocalypse

By Brandon Applegate
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Publisher Description

This is not a book about the apocalypse. 


In these pages, you won't find the hero. You won't find the ticking clock. You will not be in the room when they press the big red button. Instead, you'll find new life in the face of certain death, a boy whose prayers are answered in the worst way, mothers and sisters and friends who just want another second with their loved ones, and those who just want a moment to themselves.


These are the stories from the ground. The experiences of those who saw the world come to its violent conclusion, and what really mattered at the end of all things.


Featuring original fiction by

Taryn Martinez, Carson Winter, D. Matthew Urban, Sara Tantlinger, Alex Fox, Tiffany Michelle Brown, Angela Sylvaine, M. Lopes da Silva, Andrew Cull, Ruth Anna Evans, Wendy N. Wagner, Gwendolyn Kiste, Olen Crowe, Brittany Johnston, Elou Carroll, Nick Bouchard, L. Marie Wood, W. Dale Jordan, Elford Alley, Chris Mason, Matthew M. Bartlett, Madison McSweeney, Rae Knowles, RJ Joseph, Emma E. Murray, V. Castro, Eoin Murphy, and J.A.W. McCarthy

6 Reviews

4.5
“Thanks so much to BookSirens for the ARC of this title, it was fantastic! The stories in this collection were short, sweet, scary, and such good reads! Most of them left me wanting entire novel-length stories to elaborate on the story more because they were so intriguing.”
“An absolutely stunning collection of short stories detailing the start of a number of apocalypses 28 short stories, each individually compelling, there's Zombies, Nuclear War, Aliens, Werewolves and even a killer song in the pages of this collection. Some of the stories are heartbreaking, some of them are cathartic and some ae just wildly entertaining. Standout stories were: The Hunt by Alex Fox, a father tries to keep his daughter safe from an alien invasion A Sweet Soiree On The Last Night of the World by Gwendolyn Kiste, A party in a graveyard to celebrate the end, with added revenge Tuesday by Brittany Johnston, an office worker tries to get to her family The Smell of Summer by Emma E. Murray, the apocalypse through the eyes of a dog Well worth your time”
“The apocalypse is nothing new in horror fiction. Post-apocalyptic stories are a favorite of writers, showcasing characters navigating what the world has become after the end. The First Five Minutes of the Apocalypse dares to explore pre-apocalyptic fiction, showing doomed characters coping and dealing with the events before the inevitable end arrives. You can read https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13648560.Zachary_Rosenberg 's full review at Horror DNA by https://www.horrordna.com/books/the-first-five-minutes-of-the-apocalypse-brandon-applegate-book-review .”

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