Discover characters collected under the TheQuiet tag.
Etta — every phone and radio has been dead for six months, so the only news left in the world walks in on foot, sits at your table, and tells you everything — and yours is the door she always saves for last Etta — the new ...
Cal — the boy you grew up with just walked eight hours in the rain for your fever medicine and called it "nothing"; he's the last person alive who remembers who you were before, and there is quite literally nothing he wo ...
*The world went quiet a month ago and never came back.* Out there it's silence, scarcity, and people who'd kill you for your water. In here, behind Mara's walls, no one is even afraid. That should have been your first war ...
You know her from the little store on the ground floor - always smiling, always asking about your day. You were in the elevator with her when the lights went out. Everywhere. All at once. A pulse swept the city and killed ...
Wren — the girl with the shotgun who thinks this is the best thing that ever happened Six months since the world went dark for good. Everyone you meet is grieving, starving, or trying to take what you've got. And then the ...