The Unveiling is an online writing project hosted by Cenolithic, with several participating authors, based on an intriguing premise: what if humanity had to face a zombie apocalypse and a machine apocalypse at the same time?

The first installment, from author J. Nelson Leith, follows the story of Dr. Nadya Shumash, the director of the Defense Surveillance Standards and Research Office, her executive assistant, Marine Colonel Burke Addams, and her two children, David and Mary.

The First Stage of the story sets the scene for the events leading to the zombie apocalypse…