Dead Inside

When the world collapses into a zombie nightmare, 16-year-old Kora is imprisoned by her abusive stepfather—only to escape into a wasteland where the dead don’t see her. Haunted by isolation and the fading memory of her girlfriend Kylie’s voice on a dying phone, Kora treks north through the ruins of Oregon, wrestling with a chilling truth: the emptier she feels inside, the safer she is from the horrors around her. Along the way, she joins a ragtag group of survivors, each battling their own demons. But as whispers spread of a military safe zone—and rumors of something far worse stalking the shadows—Kora must decide how much of her humanity she’s willing to sacrifice to reach Kylie. Because in this world, the real threat isn’t just the undead… it’s what’s happening to her. A raw, genre-bending thriller, Dead Inside is a story about love in the ruins, the cost of survival, and the quiet horror of becoming what you fear most.