When People Want Someone Dead, They Hire The Best. When They Cant Afford Them, They Hire You. You Are

When People want someone dead, they hire the best. When they can’t afford them, they hire you. You are the Budget Assassin.

You were bitten by a zombie during the apocalypse, but instead of living your days as a mindless being, you are now a ghost, invisible to all except your reanimated corpse. You feel compelled to try and protect your body from all the stupid stuff it keeps trying to do.

You’re part of a community that lives on an island, no other land mass is in sight. When a crime is committed, the person responsible has to ‘go find more land’ to redeem their honor. No one has yet to return. You’ve just been caught stealing.

Things almost every author needs to research

How bodies decompose

Wilderness survival skills

Mob mentality

Other cultures

What it takes for a human to die in a given situation

Common tropes in your genre

Average weather for your setting

You are the child of an internet sensation. In a joke will, he said that if he died, the internet would raise his child. It happened, and you were left an orphan. Now, you are the internet’s child, and all your life has been directed by endless online polls and debates.

A stranger grabs your hand. Without preface, they say simply: “It’s been following me for weeks. It doesn’t sleep. It doesn’t eat. And now it’s looking at you.”