History Literature / AllisonHewittIsTrapped

* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: While Allison's own story ends happily enough, Dr. Burroughs dismisses it entirely, refuses to publish it, and basically spends the last two pages of the book telling Professor Stockton all [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech The Reasons Allison Sucks.]]]]
* [[spoiler: DroppedABridgeOnHim: Allison, (and the reader,) never learns what became of Matt, Phil, and Janette, but Dapper's burned tail implies a horrific accident involving the Molotov cocktail they were carrying.]]

* [[spoiler: [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dropped A Molotov Cocktail On Themselves:]] Allison, (and the reader,) never learns what became of Matt, Phil, and Janette, but Dapper's burned tail implies a horrific accident involving the Molotov cocktail they were carrying.]]

* TheAce: Collin, a handsome British former soldier-turned professor and storyteller who creates a massive community of survivors which he holds together mostly through sheer willpower and charisma.
** Ned, a {{Badass}} soldier with near-perfect aim who is also a devoted husband and father.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Most of the commentors who don't make it to the blog's end give warning that they're going to stop responding, but a few simply stop commenting abruptly and with no warning, leaving the reader to assume the worst.

* [[spoiler: [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dropped A Molotov Cocktail On Themselves:]] Allison, (and the reader,) never learns what became of Matt, Phill, and Janette, but Dapper's burned tail implies a horrific accident involving the Molotov cocktail they were carrying.]]

* EarWorm: Collin habitually whistles "Let's Go Fly A Kite" from ''Mary Poppins.'' It subsequently gets stuck in Allison's head at inopportune moments; typically when she's trying to think about anything besides Collin. Later it becomes [[spoiler:CrowningMusicOfAwesome when it gives Allison the strength to finish climbing the embankment into Liberty Village.]]

* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: While Allison's own story ends happily enough, Dr. Burroughs dismisses it entirely, refuses to publish it, and basically spends the last two pages of the book telling Professor Stockton all [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech The Reason Allison Sucks.]]]]

''Allison Hewitt Is Trapped'' is the tale of a young grad student/bookstore clerk swept up in the confusion of a zombie apocalypse. The story is actually the novelization of a fiction blog created by author Madeline Roux, writing from the first-person perspective of Allison who blogs about her adventures via sporadic access to a military broadband network. The action starts with Allison holed up in the breakroom of her workplace awaiting rescue or any word of the outside world. When it becomes apparent that neither is coming it falls upon Allison to rally the small, fragile band of customers and co-workers trapped alongside her and find a way past the undead masses to the world beyond.

* CreatorProvincialism: Much of the story takes place in Madeline Roux's home turf in Wisconsin.

* CrazySurvivalist: The Territorials; stereotypical heavily armed rednecks who act as brigands.

* DeadpanSnarker: Matt has his moments, Ted is professional, and Julian raises it to high art.

* [[spoiler: DownerEnding]][[spoiler: While Allison's own story ends happily enough, Dr. Burroughs dismisses it entirely, refuses to publish it, and basically spends the last two pages of the book telling Professor Stockton all [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech The Reason Allison Sucks.]]]]
* [[spoiler: [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dropped A Molotov Cocktail On Themselves:]][[spoiler: Allison, (and the reader,) never learns what became of Matt, Phill, and Janette, but Dapper's burned tail implies a horrific accident involving the Molotov cocktail they were carrying.]]

* FieryRedhead: Averted with Holly, played straight with Renny.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When [[spoiler: Zack]] betrays the group and seemingly engineers [[spoiler: Holly's]] death, Allison goes literally AxCrazy for a short time, [[chopping off his [[AnArmAndALeg feet]] and leaving him for the zombies.]]

* DarkSkinnedReadhead: Renny

-TheAce: Collin, a handsome British former soldier-turned professor and storyteller who creates a massive community of survivors which he holds together mostly through sheer willpower and charisma.
* Ned, a {{Badass}} soldier with near-perfect aim who is also a devoted husband and father.

''Allison Hewitt Is Trapped'' is the tale of a young grad student/bookstore clerk swept up in the confusion of a zombie apocalypse. The story is actually the novelization of a fiction blog created by author Madeline Roux, writing from the first-person perspective of Allison who blogs about her adventures via sporadic access to a military broadband network. The action starts with Allison holed up in the breakroom of her workplace awaiting rescue or any word of the outside world. When it becomes apparent that neither is coming it falls upon Allison to rally the small, fragile band of customers and co-workers trapped alongside her and find a way past the undead masses to the world beyond.