Literature
Deadly Misfortune
Author: Daniel Lee
...Picking out a solid, concrete radio tower, Kim made a dash for it. He climbed the steps and turned to look back. The brush he just came from shook,
and a carpet of deadly rats scampered toward him. Kim squeezed the trigger of his AK-47, and it jolted in his hands as it spit out hot lead into the
pack...

The Playground
Author: anonimous
...He was able to crawl back into the rear of the warehouse where the light couldn

The Runway
Author: John Daniels
...It was the massive bull I had encountered last night. This time I was ready for him....

The Dreams of An Insomniac
Author: Tristan Kay
...I don't sleep much anymore; life has become a twisted nightmare. Supplies are running low, and the next Stalker isn't supposed to pass by my
outpost for another two weeks. In an attempt to save power I have jury rigged two solar panels to collect energy during the day so that I may keep my
spotlights on all night...

The Stalker Chronicles: Death of Seasons
Author: MAR/DAVI GROM
...They were jogging down the train tracks when they heard some chatter on a radio. Dante shoved Vladimir into a boxcar and dived in himself. He
closed the door to a crack and sat down, listening. Vladimir had been teaching Dante Russian so he could somewhat understand what they were saying.

Soul Reaper
Author: Ethan Godfrey
...Moments turned into eternity as we inched forward. The butt of my gun was pressing hard against my shoulder causing a dull pain there. My tensed
muscles were losing their resolve and I fought the urge to run. The tension all began to peak as Sergei peered over the top of the cash register...

How a man gets by in the Zone - a survivors guide based on a true story
Author: Ors-Barna Blenessy
...He quickly pushed the man aside and jumped up. He looked around and saw that he was in a medical facility. The room had lots of medical supplies
like pills and on of those new medipack systems...

The Long Walk Back
Author: Peter Hepp
...What is often astonishing is when a grid was clean. A grid free of carcasses was a rarity as there was no crews employed the clean them, they just
relied on nature to clean up the mess. In this place nature doesn't exactly function like it does elsewhere. It's like that little place Mother Nature
wasn't allowed into because it was her husband's retreat...

Stalker
Author: Anh-Tuan Vo
...600 meters down hill a shadow collapsed to the ground.
The others near it intuitively hunched down
frantically scanning the atmosphere for foreign
thoughts, vainly trying to locate the intruder; a
group of minds working together as one. Where is it?!
Where is it?! Where is it?!...

Outsiders' Story
Author: Uwasa Waya
...Mike looked out into the rain once again. Every stalker wonders how life had led them to the Zone. Mike knew. It was a plane crash, on route to
Japan from Europe. He, Alex and Dan had planned and saved up their money for this trip for a long time, a tour through Europe, a two day stop in
Russia, and then the rest of their journey was to be spent in Japan...

Thief
Author: Megatron
...The next morning the two stalkers that had followed him returned to the site.

A Blind Dog
Author: Ian Oleshkovski AKA Mad_Dog
...I can see everything all the time. Even when I'm asleep, since I can't close my eyelids. I haven't got any. And never ever did. The ones devouring
my flesh when I die won't find eyes, either. The tasty eyes, which often triggered fights between male dogs after a successful hunt and which I once
brought for the Most-Cunning-from-the-Hollow, who lives where grass burns the paws. I gave her the eyes taken out of a Tall-One's skull, because she
granted me her first Smell of Madness...

Dead Wait
Author: Adam Ingle
...A deep, loud rumbling rolled across the dim gray hills, passing through the tents, almost seeming to make the flames from the campfire shift and
jump in fright...

Our finest hour
Author: Sal Privitera aka CobaLT
...We fell back as fast as we could from the unspeakable dangers we faced by staying in that part of woods, we needed to get to higher ground in the
open where we can make a stand. We retreating to ETA and made a desperate stand for the night...

The Hunter
Author: K Wright
...You know, when I really think about it, I don't know who's hunting who.
Am i the hunter, or the hunted? Such thoughts had been occuring more frequently,
as my stay the the Zone legthened. Some of the other Stalkers say it can
mess with your mind, if you stay too long.
"Well, one more reason to finish this now." I muttered, to no one in
particular...

Three hours
Author: Edward Fuller
...Quickly he brought it to eyes, the radiation levels were high, very high, he was probably already dead, three hours in this radiation, five he
thought again, and enough he thought...

Sasha Petrovic
Author: Rodd Buhlig
...He did a quick check of equipment and weapons and pulled on his pack. The sun was just peeking over the horizon and he would need every bit of day
light he could get. It was only a few kilometers into the zone before he came across what looked like another Stalker who had a run into something
that he hadn

He who dares, wins
Author: Dale Oliverio
...The burly stalker leaned forward, his hands gripping the edges of the rusting table, the heavy weight causing the feeble metal legs to groan in
protest.

Unsung
Author: Phill Martinmaas
...Russian scientists had been working on multitudes of secret projects, not unlike those of the black ops in other nations. Before the economic
collapse, a particle accelerator double the capability of the newly rebuilt CERN in Switzerland was underway...

The diary of a scientist
Author: piet11111
...I walked into the coffee room and I was welcomed by the scientists and the soldiers , I was surprised by all the questions they asked me on how I
was doing and how my meeting with dr burke was...