Dead Inside

What if the workplace apocalypse did not start with a virus, a meteor, or a mysterious government experiment?

What if it started with an email?

At 6:03 a.m., leadership sends a message using the words "exciting update," "organizational alignment," and "please remain calm," which is how every employee knows something terrible has already happened and nobody with authority plans to explain it clearly.

By the time Alex gets to the office, Accounting has become suspiciously aggressive, the break room coffee tastes like legal liability, HR is asking everyone to avoid the word "zombie," and leadership is broadcasting from a location that looks far too safe to be accidental.

Welcome to Dead Inside: A Workplace Survival Thriller, a darkly funny, first-person corporate apocalypse where the undead are terrifying, but somehow still less exhausting than meetings, surveys, performance reviews, vague emails, and managers asking if you have capacity during active disaster.

As the office collapses into chaos, Alex and a group of burned-out survivors must navigate infected coworkers, locked stairwells, useless evacuation plans, executive panic buttons, rebranded disasters, and a break room fridge that may or may not be patient zero. The zombies follow the org chart. The copier becomes an alarm system. The cafeteria lady becomes a warrior. The unpaid intern becomes the only person who knows where the emergency exits are. And somehow, even after everything falls apart, leadership still expects everyone back Monday.

Part workplace satire, part survival thriller, and part emotional support document for anyone who has ever been asked to "circle back" while quietly losing the will to live, this book turns corporate burnout into a full-blown zombie outbreak and asks the most important question of modern employment:

What if the office was eating people all along?

Perfect for fans of sarcastic workplace humor, corporate horror, zombie survival stories, and anyone who has ever stared at an Outlook notification like it personally threatened their bloodline, Dead Inside is a brutally funny reminder that sometimes the dead do not rise from graves.

Sometimes they rise from meetings.

This is a story for every employee who has ever smiled through confusion, survived a meeting that should have been an email, watched leadership rename disaster, or wondered why the printer develops morals only during emergencies. It is for the burned-out, overlooked, underpaid, professionally smiling people who know the real monsters do not always groan. Sometimes they say "great question," schedule a follow-up, and ask for a status update while the building burns behind them. It is ridiculous, sharp, strangely familiar, and painfully honest in the way only workplace comedy can be when the office has finally stopped pretending everything is fine. Bring coffee...

And sometimes, after surviving the whole nightmare, your manager still shows up beside your desk and asks if you have capacity.