Dead America - Ground Zero (Dead America Book 0)
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- SWAT is prepared for every scenario, except for when the dead walk.
In the early morning hours of Day Zero, Brandon Shelton and the rest of his SWAT team respond to a routine call on the University of Texas campus. As the situation goes from bad to worse, they struggle to survive the day against the growing horde of zombies.
This is the prequel to the longest running zombie book series out there, Dead America.
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I love the day zero stories, when nobody knows what is starting to happen. How people in everyday life scenarios are starting to see high strangeness, and not a soul realizes what's about to happen.....
I do too, and when they include ACTUAL survival tips..you know, just in case of an apocalypse..😆
Idk what you're talking about. Everyone instantly knew it was zombies 5 seconds after it started.happening.
@darlene1417.. I agree . For me it's the beginning of the Zompac that is always the most exciting part. It puts me in the mindset of what would I do when, oops 😬, IF this were to really happen.
Yes I totally agree. Please recommend other audiobooks like this
Me to
Another great story thanks again. On a sadder note my friend Big Chief lost his battle with cancer on Monday. He's the one that told me about your channel he was a big fan of yours and I know he would have loved it as well.
RIP Big Chief
I am so sorry for your loss. I had no idea He was fighting cancer. Without fail he would be one of the first people commenting on the videos. He will be missed.
RIP Big Chief. Imagine the stories he's listening to now 😊
So very sorry for your loss. May his spirit comfort you in your grief .
Sorry for your loss may he rest in peace and his loved ones be encouraged and strengthen to be strong for coming months.
Thx God it's Saturday... Dead America time!!! Thank you for this gift.
I hung on to every word and teared up at the end. This story was awesome.
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it, and there's a lot more on here for you as well!
Thank you Derek, I stroked out last week after a booster and I really needed this
Said it before say it again. It takes a lot of guts to end a good story. Bravo. Thanks for sharing this with us
The end 😢
Thank you so much . Brilliant as always 🥰🤗😘
I still like the fast zombies, I know you prefer the shamblers yourself.but I've noticed you put both into most stores,keep up the good work.still don't understand why you don't have ten's of thousands subscribers, your the best writer out there 👍
yeah I'm a huge shambler fan, started writing after watching the original Dawn of the Dead way back in the day. I decided to have both because I wanted a way to sort of freeze everything in place (stuff on store shelves for example), and having runners would do that. Plus the threat of runners from freshly turned people is a huge threat.
And the channel is starting to pick up steam. maybe one of these day's I'll hit 10k!
i love it cannot wait until next saturday have a wonderful day derek
Yipeeee, zombie day!
I’ve been waiting all week for this one.. Plot twist threw me, I didn’t see that ending coming
Eating animals is good. Pork chops are yummy. Bacon is gooood!
😂😂 wished I could have grown up not eating meat, but that didn't happen, and meat is good. Bacon, fish, chicken,etc..
wow, damn, a grim days zero story, awesome! Thank you for the video
Phenomenal book as always, i swear i got chills with the last line of the book. A+!
Love ground zero. Keep them coming
Hey guys. Am I the only one who hits the thumbs up first thing?? Such a good series. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Superb reading of a great story.
Thank you.
what a pleasure to come about this!
My name is Brandon damn the ending just made me cry the way you ended was so sad and beautiful, great story of struggle and courage
This one really got to me. I'm not ashamed that I teared up a little at the end.
Thank god no AI narration
I guess that Ground zero title is a huge foreshadowing to the ending, I really like the resident evil vibes with alpha team going in first than losing contact only for bravo team to go in, if that ending was ever translated into a movie or show I guess "Where is my mind by the pixies" would start playing.
I wonder if we'll get a story about Alpha team & how they were able to chain up the doors.
This one actually came out years after the series started, so there were already mentions of the fate of Austin. While I'm not going to be doing a story about alpha team, I have started a series focused on soldiers during the opening days of the apocalypse, so there will be stories like this.
Ok, story, but I have 3 issues with this story. 1. They saw the doors were chained trying to keep the building sealed, and you break the window? 2. Swat guys freezing? 3. All hell breaks loose, and you don't risk life and limb to get to your family?
So with issue 1, they needed to investigate, and at that point were still pretty sure they were being pranked by the other team. 2. Swat guys are human, so freezing is entirely possible. 3. It took every ounce of fighting just to get as far as they got, so getting to the family really wasn't an option.
I understand what you're saying, and everything that happened had to for the story.
The narrorator talking like a😂little girl killed it
Thank you Derek!!
Had a bad feeling but being it's in Texas I feel obligated (teehee) plus captivating story line!
I lived in austin most of my life and wow i felt like i know where all of this is taking place and it made me really excited
I lived there for the better part of a decade, so had plenty of time to wander around and get an idea of the area. hope you enjoy it!
I love this series - it leads the genre in cocked eyebrows 🥴
I love these books and films but with the amount of zombie pranks if it really happens everyone will think its a joke
Another excellent story Derek,bit grim at the end but i do like the outbreak stories mate👍 RIP Big Chief,
This was so good!
I just love dead America but I can't wait for the new series I'm so excited I hope it starts in November
The best one, thank you
Best one so far.
Thank you!I love it 🤘🇧🇻
This is amazing!
Fantastic story...plz keep em coming 😂
The chatacters in this story are so realistic.
Especially the feminist that complains about gender stereotypes!
Superb narration diction. Very clear and emphatic. Thank you.
This one got me at the end amazing stories just amazing
Thank you so much!
This was a good story, but it was sad and heart breaking. A dedicated cop risks everything trying to help, but in the end is killed anyway. The bombing of the cities would most likely be the kind of thing the government would do. Likely they would be left with no other choice, but what a betrayal for the few who had managed to survive until then, to just become "collateral damage".
Man what a book the ending was like Wow .
I absolutely loved this ❤ 💖 ♥
I agree day zero stories are always the best.
I'm going to be doing a lot more of them too! So many stories to tell
This was witty and beautiful read..very cool
So glad you enjoyed it! Don't forget to check out the main series! There are over 100 books and there is a playlist for it
This was so great!
Thank you so much!
Yay! Can't wait
1:20:00 this was actually well written 👏
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it!
I love ground zero stuff.
❤
Hi Derek how you doing brother,l, loving your short stories, really clever were the narrator sounds as if he's talking over the phone, have you done any short stories that have sound effects all the way through.i don't recall any, I know your very busy writing but could you maybe do a short one.no problem if you can't,still 1 of your biggest fans.hope you and yours are keeping well 👍
Dang. My heart aches. Three survivors, who fought so bravely, tooth and nail, just killed off. Just like that. 😢😢😢
yep, sometimes even if you do everything right, you still lose. hope you enjoyed the story!
❤❤ amazing
60:00 damn!
ANY CME EMP STORYS COMING ? MORE REALISTIC THAN ZOMBIES
Austin police have 1600 officers alone without counting county, state and federal officers within the city. If a shots fired happens at a University hundreds of officers are coming. If that much of the department of sick that only four or five officers are available for shots fired call. Than a state of emergency would’ve been declared a national guard units would be deployed at that point. The introduction just really broke my immersion.
Simple. Short. Fast Paced. I like it.
I'm not a fan of filler. plenty of stories out there with characters sitting around having deep conversations. not here, just chaos and mayhem!
Give us a Chicago outbreak perspective
I keep going back and forth about a series set in either Chicago or NYC. Really need a full mini-series about super big city experience
At least they didn't get eaten.
Being vaporized sounds less painful.
Not one had a cell phone to call for help? To warn? To provide info?
Gotta have someone on the other end of the line to pick up and who could actually help
An entire swat team goes dark after a frantic 911 and they send like 4 or 5 guys to investigate? lol okay.
Most of the usual guys were out sick due to the zombie virus that had spread. they were short handed and went with what they had
20 Minutes in and this is clearly a poorly written story. it is obvious that the writer has no clue how a swat (or any ) team operates or doesn't care. The opening scene has a Swat team rushing into a building full of zombies. This would have worked if they were thrown in right there and then, but that is not the case. Instead, they arrive after some traveling at a building that is barricaded from the inside, and there is no apparent emergency because the writer clearly spells out how everyone around them is going on with their daily business. Swat teams aren't the first to arrive on a scene. Usually, there will be local police, and there will be a situational officer and a lot of other emergency personnel. Given that the team takes at least twenty minutes to travel to the scene(probably much longer), this would have allowed plenty of time for other law enforcement officers to be there, too, but nobody is there.
When Swat arrives their task isn't to rush into a building without any knowledge, and given that the building was barricaded, the foremost task would have been to establish control and wait for backup or someone in charge. Given that no zombies were pouring onto the streets, there was no reason for Swat to go in without any kind of situational knowledge.
Then there is the odd story of the girl. She appears right at the moment a swat member wants to smash the window to open the doors. She has the keys to the door. But why? The next moment, she scoffs at the officer for thinking that the medical center is closed. It is always open! So why does she have to keys to a building that is always open?
Then next, when the Swat team goes in, they girl follows them. This was the straw that broke the camel's back. If she had sneaked in, it would be understandable, but none of the team took care to check what she was doing. This would be a vital action as there is always the possibility that an outside agent is cooperating with an inside threat. So this girl could have been a danger for all they know.
And what person in their right mind would go inside a building with the floor littered with blood splatters?
Clearly, the writer wants to write a situation without doing any of the heavy lifting, like setting things up or doing some research, thinking on how to get people into danger without making them stupid.
36:24 And thats how you get sacrificed to the hungry real quickly...lol
Who else was wanting his kid to get ate first..
SWAT teams that have no cell phones or radios?
The first team called in, and the second didn't really have anybody else to call.
@@DerekSlatonHorrorAuthor The first team called in to 911. The second team had lots of people to call the outbreak was just started at the university.
Brave and empowered women now even in zombie stories! 🤢🤢🤢
If you don't like strong female characters, you probably aren't going to like this series
@@DerekSlatonHorrorAuthor Ok, thanks for the warning.
this was depressing i was hoping they at least got away NO if it wasn’t the zombies its the darn military
Can't all have happy endings in the apocalypse. But hope you enjoyed the story
@@DerekSlatonHorrorAuthor i did enjoy the story so did my husband! I would like to think me and my husband would survive because of his area of expertise. My husband is a Veteran of South Africa national defense forces and did peacekeeping to active combat zone in central Africa. We live outside of town on Acres of land outside of Albuquerque in the South Western USA. My husband got me into these radio stories and i love them.
My husband jokes “Mayu-chan your career has you in the epicenter of an outbreak” i’m a pediatrician but knowing my husband he’d gather his brothers-in-arms to battle the ghouls! My husband really liked World war Z and not that horrible movie! My husband also co-owns a private security company full of combat veterans and law enforcement.
This is Texas said the man with a British accent.
Haha yeah.....
Thanks for the free reading brother.
@@storytime6263 it's my pleasure! hope you enjoy it!
The title is dead America and it's set in Texas and you choose a person with a british accent to narrate it?!😅
haha yeah, before i switched over to AI I had to go with the best available talent for the money. hence the british voice
link to next story of dead america
here is the full list of Dead America stories (outside of the Lowcountry spinoff) ua-cam.com/play/PLkG6TNsevqw9h9o37-mab3i2lJltwAiN9.html
@@DerekSlatonHorrorAuthor thanks but is there a continuation of this specific story, i want to know if they survived or does it mean they died and he wasnt able to see his family
@@jamesortega8681 This was a standalone prequel to the main series that came along well after the series began. During Book 4 they reference the bombing of Austin, and I wanted to tell that story. The people in this particular story did not survive the bombing.
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GREAT BOOK BUT FIRST THEY APPEAR TO GET DEAD 💀 TOO FAST 😅
the vegan daughter, well she just burned my @$$, the amount of whine... eerrghhhh, and the good guys.. reality in the end. Darn good tale.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! Hope you enjoy the rest of the series too!
First
Beat by a girl lol
@@Hal_50as usual 😅
Don’t listen to this. It is too sad
Im not much for the narrator's voice.
Nope, 3 minutes in and the voices of this narrator ruin it
No stupid zombie books. 🙄🙄
Oh, damn. That was hard to listen to.
Sometimes things go badly in the zombie apocalypse. appreciate you listening!
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