Alex Chen

Surviving the Apocalypse

A journal open on a desk with handwritten diary entries, dated entries visible. Through a bedroom window, a suburban street that's subtly wrong — an abandoned car, an empty stroller, overgrown lawns. Normal bedroom otherwise. Late afternoon light with an unsettling stillness. Documentary horror.

You're writing a diary during a slow-burn zombie apocalypse. Day by day, you document society's collapse — from the first news reports to empty shelves to neighborhood barricades. Your entries capture the mundane horror of watching normalcy disintegrate one day at a time.