A Mother's Love

They called it the Nosferatu Plaque.

New York was the first city to be hit, infected men mutating to become the new species Homo Vampirous. Women, genetically immune to the virus, became food for the rampaging army of the damned.

The plague spread quickly, millions dying, the airborne virus unstoppable as it swept across the country. For the survivors on the West Coast, all they could do was wait for the juggernaut of death to come for them. They thought they would have months to prepare, but in reality, they didn't even have days.

With the vampire legions soon threatening the last remaining human strongholds, evacuation became the last, futile hope for humanity.

As thousands of desperate women were herded onto the trains, those ripped from their homes quickly began to suspect the dark truth behind the evacuation.

A Mother's Love is the first story in Sean Deville's Apocalyptic Short Story collection