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Lark Cahill
✨First Million WordsFounding word contributor
How it was earned: Published work that helped Lantern reach its first one million story words.
🎒Back to SchoolSeptember 2026 event author
How it was earned: Participated in Lantern’s September 2026 Back to School event.
Dark academia, with teeth.
Dark academiaZombie survivalGothic horror
83,171published words across 1 Lantern story
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About the author
Lark Cahill writes zombie survival with a class schedule — institutions that were never going to tell you the truth, and the students who find out anyway.
Currently serializing Outbreak Academy, Book One: Activation. Exclusive to Lantern.
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- iced lattes no matter how cold it is outside.
- busy befriending my local corvids with turkey jerky and sweet potatoes.
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Stories by Lark Cahill
Urban Fantasy
Activation
Magic was supposed to be humanity's answer to the zombie plague. At Outbreak Academy, Morgan O'Neill is starting to suspect it may be part of the problem.
They promised Morgan O'Neill everything: housing vouchers, ration cards, safe-zone status for her family. All she had to do was learn to control the infected.
Nobody mentioned the students who disappear.
Camp Sharon looks like the summer camp it used to be — cabins, a lake, a volleyball net going slack in the weeds. But the fence points inward as much as out, the instructors flinch at the wrong questions, and the scientist whose research may have started the plague has a sister still teaching here.
Morgan came to Outbreak Academy to save her family. But the deeper she digs into its secrets, the harder it becomes to tell whether she's being trained to fight the outbreak—or become part of it.
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