Clean up on Aisle Nine

The Market in Arcadian County has always been a minimum-wage purgatory — sour coffee, corporate scripts, and dreams that expire faster than the deli meat. But when a chaotic town event spills blood across the tile, the store’s polished floors become the first feeding ground for the infected.

Now the doors are locked. The alarms are dead. And the aisles have never felt longer.

Inside, a mismatched crew of terrified employees clings to life among the canned goods:

The power-tripping manager who still quotes corporate policy while bodies hit the floor.

The deadpan warrior who trades her produce apron for a baseball bat and doesn’t hesitate to swing.

Fritz a thirty-year-old weed dealer whose primary skill set is movie quotes — and one dangerously effective arson plan.

Old Marv, whose driving is nearly as lethal as the infected he refuses to die for.

But when a midnight massacre tears through their barricade and the Market becomes a slaughterhouse, survival turns feral fast.

Dark. Violent. Wickedly funny in all the wrong places.

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