The Shelter

The world around ten-year-old Sunni Brown is crumbling. War, disease and crushing poverty are everyday realities. For a while, she counts herself amongst the lucky. But will she survive when she's forced to live in an abandoned parking structure?

This is a scary future; but there are no werewolves, vampires or zombies…in this future, human beings are the scariest creatures of all.

This dystopian fiction is a short story (5500 words in length and approximately 25 pages).