Before the Delaware Safe Zone. Before Ben escaped. Before the world collapsed into hunger and ruin… There was a family, a winter, and a puppy who would become Girl. SLIMBIES: GIRL — an intro novella to the Slimbies saga.

The world changed when a miracle weight-loss injection swept the globe. Pushed by celebrities, influencers, and corporations desperate to sell a better version of yourself. It worked.

People got skinny. Healthy. Happy.

Then they got hungry. For flesh.

Now, years after the collapse, the world is a patchwork of safe zones and silent ruins haunted by what survivors call Slimbies. Loose-skinned. Hollow-eyed. Driven by endless hunger. Soulless masses that still mimic pieces of the people they used to be.

Ben was just a kid when the world collapsed. After spending years trapped inside the Delaware Safe Zone, a walled survival zone built on lies, he finally decides to escape into the ruins beyond the fence.

What begins as a desperate escape from the Delaware Safe Zone into the dead towns beyond it slowly becomes something more when he finds a stray dog he names Girl. Along the way, Ben finds other survivors still trying to build lives among the ruins. And discovers that even after the end of the world, people still need each other.

Slimbies is a bleak, emotional post-apocalyptic horror novel about survival, found family, and the quiet ways we save each other when everything else feels lost.