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LanternLantern author
K.A. Seger
Love stories for the end of the world—broken people, brutal choices, and hope that has to be earned.
Post-apocalyptic fictionSurvival romanceZombie horrorSpeculative fictionDystopian romance
17,162published words across 1 Lantern story
Behind the byline
About the author
K.A. Seger writes emotionally raw post-apocalyptic fiction about damaged people finding reasons to keep moving. Her stories blend grounded survival stakes, dark humor, slow-burn intimacy, and the messy work of choosing other people when isolation would be easier.
Expect morally complicated survivors, practical danger, hard-won tenderness, and found families built one impossible decision at a time. In K.A. Seger’s worlds, hope is not soft, love is not a cure, and staying alive is only the beginning.
⌖ Somewhere between a dead city and the road north.
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In the headphones
Writing soundtrack
- Rain against apartment windows
- Dark cinematic scores
- Empty-highway ambience
- One devastating song on repeat
Tiny author lore
Things to know
- Will always follow the single light in a dark window
- Believes competence is romantic
- Knows false hope can hurt worse than betrayal
On Lantern
Stories by K.A. Seger
Post-Apocalyptic Dystopian Survival Romance
We Will Never Have to Bury Each Other
The City That Never Sleeps has gone dark.
Ashlynn is stranded in a Park Avenue apartment with thirty-one pills, a grief she refuses to name, and a candle burning in the window. She tells herself the light is practical. She knows it is a plea.
Leith is moving north through Manhattan with an open wound, an empty pistol, and a deadline. He survives by planning every possible version of disaster. The version where he ignores the candle is safer.
He goes upstairs anyway.
Their fragile alliance becomes three when they find Katrina, an eleven-year-old survivor who has learned never to wait for an adult to save her. Together they cross a city full of dead, a stadium full of desperate living, and roads where every shelter carries a claim.
Ashlynn cannot promise sobriety. Leith cannot promise safety. Katrina already knows adults make promises they cannot keep. But mile by mile, the three become a “we”—and learn that love after the end of the world is not a guarantee of safety. It is a choice made without one.
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