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Shelter in Place: A standalone story from the world of BUNKER 12 and THE FLENSE (BUNKER 12 - a Series from the World of THE FLENSE) Kindle Edition

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"Shelter in Place" was originally published as "Lockdown" in the FUTURE CHRONICLES: THE DOOMSDAY CHRONICLES anthology (Mar 2016). It is a standalone short story in the worlds of Tanpepper's BUNKER 12 and THE FLENSE series.

A sudden lockdown at her elementary school forces a young teacher into survival mode. But as hours pass, and the nature of the threat is slowly revealed, she will discover that the risk inside her classroom is as great as the one waiting outside her door. Maybe even greater.

About BUNKER 12

Requiring no more than the slightest skin-to-skin contact, the Flense spread across the globe with ruthless speed and stealth, decimating mankind before it was barely even aware of it. The infected were turned into soulless creatures, Wraiths, which wrought destruction upon anyone and anything in their path.

Secure inside ten isolated bunkers are Humanity's tattered remains, each working tirelessly to unravel the mystery of the scourge. But the bunkers were never meant to protect forever. In fact, they were never meant to protect at all.

BUNKER 12 currently consists of: Contain, Condemn, and Control.

About THE FLENSE (companion series to BUNKER 12)

Hundreds die in a fiery train crash in northern China. A cargo ship smuggling refugees is lost to calm seas off the Libyan coast. Entire villages in Ghana are abandoned overnight.

Contracted by an apocalypse prepper group to investigate a series of seemingly disconnected global tragedies, a young freelance medical reporter, Angelique de l'Enfantine, uncovers a disturbing pattern: each event is preceded by the sudden spread of a mysterious ailment and is followed by the appearance of a man dressed in black and silver who witnesses claim is the devil himself. Are the tragedies harbingers of an impending biblical catastrophe or practice runs of a fanatical organization bent on global annihilation?

With each event more grisly than the last and the risk to her life growing, Angel must ask herself if her sponsors are using her to advance their own paranoid agenda.

THE FLENSE currently consists of: China, Iceland, and Africa.


From the creator of the highly acclaimed epic cyberpunk series GAMELAND

GAMELAND SERIES DESCRIPTION

Built in the middle of Long Island’s abandoned industrial wasteland is a hundred-square-mile virtual reality arcade where the rich and privileged compete in a high-stakes game and the undead are their real-life avatars. There are only two ways to get into this horrifying yet wildly addictive game. The first is by paid invitation. The second is by volunteering to become an Undead Player.

After finding themselves trapped inside a massive gaming arcade in the middle of Long Island's abandoned wasteland, a group of young computer hackers must figure out how to escape while staying out of the clutches of its undead inhabitants and their living controllers.

Get Episode One: Deep Into the Game free: A reckless end-of-summer prank sends six hackers trespassing onto abandoned Long Island hoping for a glimpse of the victims of the decade-old outbreak.


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ARE YOU READY FOR THE WORLD OF THE FLENSE?

BUNKER 12 series big banner don't make a sound

WELCOME TO THE BUNKER. THEY SAID IT WOULD KEEP US SAFE. THEY LIED.

It's been three years since young Finn Bolles fled to the safety of B-8, one of ten secret apocalypse bunkers built to survive a humanity-destroying plague known as the Flense. Three years of total isolation from the world. Three years hiding from the terrifying creatures known as Wraiths.

When an uninfected stranger appears at their front door spouting extraordinary claims of a cure, it upsets the delicate order within their safe community. Should they leave their hermetically sealed haven to help the madman find it? What if the place where he claims it exists, a previously unknown 12th bunker, isn't supposed to exist? With Humanity's fate on the line, do they risk an infection worse than death to find and retrieve it?

As disagreement splinters the group and violence breaks out, the terrifying truth begins to emerge about the real cause of the Flense and why it was released into the world in the first place. But there's someone within the bunker desperate to keep those secrets buried, and they'll do whatever it takes to make sure of it.

Even if it means unleashing the Flense against them all.

Thrilling end-of-the-world survival fiction for fans of Ryan Schow, Kyla Stone, T.L. Payne, Grace Hamilton, Harley Tate, Boyd Craven, and Franklin Horton.

"White-knuckled reading."

"Very happy to find a new series with fresh ideas."

"Saul Tanpepper has me hooked!"

"Full of mystery and terror."

"Nail-biter thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat."

The thrilling BUNKER 12 series includes 4 full-length novels + 4 companion short stories stories (included):

  1. CONTAIN + SHELTER IN PLACE
  2. CONDEMN + NEW WORLD ORDER
  3. CONTROL + TORN APART
  4. CONSUME + THE LAST THING SHE SAID

Saul Tanpepper's BUNKER 12 series book 1 Contain - the post-apocalyptic survival thriller

CONTAIN - Book 1 of BUNKER 12

17-year-old Finnian Bolles' life is good in the bunker, a lot better than it was before the world ended. He's got a girl and best friend who's loyal to a fault. Sure, things could be better. He could have the rest of his family with him, for example. But all in all, he can't complain.

That's all about to change.

Everything he and his fellow survivors have built over the last three years is about to come crashing down. The world they fled - not the old world, but the one that began with the spread of a deadly plague when Finn was 14 - has arrived on their doorstep. Now, as before, happiness isn't the most important thing in the world, survival is.

Contain is the first book of the thrilling post-apocalyptic survival series from master storyteller Saul Tanpepper. Available in digital and paperback.

CONTAIN

CONDEMN

CONTROL

CONSUME

Books in THE FLENSE series: China, Iceland, Africa, Cuba

AND BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE COMPANION SERIES, THE FLENSE

Hundreds die in a fiery train crash in a remote part of Northern China. A cargo ship smuggling refugees is horribly stricken with a strange ailment. Entire villages in Ghana become ghost towns overnight.

When an apocalypse prepper group contacts medical investigative reporter Angelique de l'Enfantine to help unravel a series of seemingly disconnected global tragedies, she's plunged into a dark and dangerous world of murder, medical mayhem, and mystery. Racing from one corner of the planet to the next as she tries to get ahead of the deadly plagues, she soon finds that she herself may become the next target.

THE FLENSE is a fast-paced international technothriller. The series includes 4 full-length novels and 4 extra companion short stories:

  1. CHINA
  2. ICELAND + HINT OF A CURE
  3. AFRICA + ERASURE
  4. CUBA + OF ÜBERMENSCH AND ANTIHEROES + SEEDS

For more information, a free starter library, and to be notified of new releases & exclusive giveaways, visit Saul at tanpepperwrites.com.

The BUNKER 12 series
THE FLENSE series
The ZPOCALYPTO series
The SCORCHED EARTH series
The DROWNED EARTH series
Customer Reviews
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Genre Post-apocalyptic Technothriller Dystopian Thriller Thriller
Subgenre Horror, YA Dystopian Cyberpunk, gamelit Apocalyptic, Cli-Fi Dystopian, Cli-Fi, Action & Adventure
Type of disaster Plague Medical technology Zombies, technology Climate, terrorism Climate, stalker, geo-political
Main protagonist YA male Female YA female Male YA female
Series length 4 novels + 4 companion titles 4 novels + 4 companion titles 14 novels + 4 companion titles 4 novels 4 novels
Status Completed Completed Completed Completed In progress
World Bunker 12/The Flense Bunker 12/The Flense Gameland Climate Collapse Climate Collapse
Maturity rating 14+ (mild language, violence) 18+ (language, violence) 16+ (language, violence) 16+ (language, violence) 14+ (violence)
Author Saul Tanpepper

THRILLING SURVIVAL FICTION FROM MASTER STORYTELLER SAUL TANPEPPER

If you're looking for edge-of-your seat, pulse-pounding reads, you've come to the right place.

Four complete thrilling series guaranteed to keep you enthralled for weeks on end.

  • BUNKER 12: 3 years after a humanity-ending plague sweeps across the globe, sending groups of lucky survivors into ten remote bunkers, one group emerges to a world even more deadly than before.
  • THE FLENSE: In this high-tech thriller and companion series to BUNKER 12, a young medical investigative journalist seeks answers to a mysterious series of global disasters.
  • ZPOCALYPTO: A deadly outbreak on Long Island, a powerful entertainment company exploiting it for profit, and a handful of gamer-hackers who quickly discover they're messing with the wrong people, both living and dead.
  • THE CLIMATE COLLAPSE SURVIVAL SERIES: Against the backdrop of geo-political and climate collapse, everyday people struggle to carry on with their lives, overcoming extraordinary challenges in the process.

Visit Saul at tanpepperwrites.com.

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01LOHEMI8
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Brinestone Press
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 5, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2.2 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 37 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 out of 5 stars 28 ratings

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Bestselling author of over thirty thrilling novels and sixty short stories, Saul Tanpepper is the specfic pen name of Ken J. Howe, a PhD molecular biologist and former Army medic and trauma specialist.

His titles include:

The epic post-apocalyptic zombie series ZPOCALYPTO (a World of GAMELAND series)

The thrilling pandemic survival series BUNKER 12

The international technothriller series THE FLENSE (a BUNKER 12 companion series)

The climate disaster survival thriller series SCORCHED EARTH (a Climate Collapse series)

Short story collections and anthologies:

- Shorting the Undead & Other Horrors

- Insomnia: Paranormal Tales, Science Fiction, and Horror

- The Doomsday Chronicles (Future Chronicles)

- The Gamer Chronicles (Future Chronicles)

- Chronicle Worlds: Halfway Home (Future Chronicles)

- Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors (Grist/The New Press)

For author news, complementary starter library, & exclusive deals/giveaways visit his website at www.tanpepperwrites.com

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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2016
    It seems that whenever I have gone a long period between Saul Tanpepper's books, I sort of forget just how incredible a story teller he really is... Then, when I finally find time to pick up a new book or short story like this one, and I instantly find myself sucked into the story and fully invested in the characters from the very first paragraph, I remember all over again why I have sworn to read any and all things that he writes. Shelter In Place is a quick and intense read. Yeah, since I am an avid Bunker 12 fan, I had no doubt what was stumbling about in the storm and what truly horrifying danger was just outside that door... yet I was on the edge of my seat while I read it, and as nervous as if I were in the classroom with her. I highly recommend that you take a break from the real world as we know it, and read this little gem of a story that is set right at the moment the world fell apart.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2017
    Did not like this story. Started in the middle of a story without any back story to let you figure out what is happening. It has a dark ending.
  • Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2016
    When an elementary school is locked down due to an immediate crisis, Allison, a germophobic teacher, is forced to keep her students safe while waiting for a resolution. As cell services get disrupted and communication becomes sporadic, she tries to keep her students entertained and quiet. But as time passes, the threat now targets her school - will she even be able to stay alive? The tension is expertly turned up one harrowing notch at a time while frightening us with each passing moment, making me nervous and culminating in a finale that scared me in its breathless suspense.

    I read this short story when it was originally published in The Doomsday Chronicles (The Future Chronicles), an anthology filled with much more excellent short stories about the end of the world just like this one!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2016
    I first read this story in The Doomsday Chronicles, where it certainly fit right in. While this is part of the Bunker 12 series, it stands alone. You needn’t read the series first, although I’d recommend that too. This story is placed earlier in time, right at the beginning of the end, so to speak.

    It’s easy for authors writing apocalyptic tales to make sweeping statements about thousands of people dying, but it’s rarer to find stories of how that might look from the viewpoint of one or two people. Saul does that extremely well – he breathes life into a character or two and shows us how they think and feel in the midst of disaster. Here it’s the confusion and courage of a schoolteacher, a snapshot of the last normal day she and her students will know. It’s sad, but a great story, and highly recommended.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2016
    A great short that ties in with the Bunker series, and the Flense! I would almost call this a prequel, but then again not. The first moments, of the flense, caught, and described from a school teacher, trying to protect her students. A great read, and again a wonderful tie in to the series we all love. Well written, and it will leave you wanting more!
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  • Pod
    5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent teaser to the "Contain" series.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 5, 2016
    I love short stories. Cup of tea, couple of biscuits and a good book just long enough for a second cup. Saul's books are just about perfect for that. Great little stories where you generally, kinda think that you know what's going on. And if you're familiar with his work, you sometimes do, and sometimes you get a surprise!
    Recommended.
  • Carly cardinal
    5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely in love!
    Reviewed in Canada on July 19, 2024
    My only complaint: I wish there was more!! I loved this book & was so sad when it ended!
  • Drain
    5.0 out of 5 stars Another classic from Saul Tanpepper!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 25, 2017
    A great short story in the Bunker 12 universe. You don't need to have read the series so far (at time of writing it is still going) but why wouldn't you? Bunker 12 and it's sister series The Flense is brilliant. Go and buy it now!
  • Brydonuk
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gripped
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 22, 2016
    Wow! Gripped from start to finish. Don't want to say too much as I don't want to spoil it for you, so get this read!!!!

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