About Bougie Apocalypse

Teller of Stories. Soldier, security contractor, family man. Wrangler of dogs, chickens & opinions. BBQ pitmaster, range rat, cigar & whiskey guy.

I spent years telling post-apocalyptic stories to my family and friends. They finally told me I should write them down.

This is the result.

What This Stack Is About

Bougie Apocalypse is a serialized military-flavored post-apocalyptic pulp series that asks one simple question:

What if someone fought the end of the world… while still insisting on doing it with a little class?

Expect:

• Tactical, grounded survival with real military experience behind it

• Dark humor and stubborn hope

• Heirloom beans, a very expensive French carbon steel skillet that doubles as a zombie skull-cracker, and decent coffee

• Characters who refuse to let the apocalypse turn them into savages

The Bougie Apocalypse Series

• Prequel: Sergeant’s Ledger — How Jack became Jack

• Book 1: The Cough Is Loose — Currently releasing (permanently free in serial form)

• Book 2: Staying Human

• Book 3: The Zombie War

Current Story

Book 1: The Cough Is Loose

When an engineered respiratory plague collapses society, retired Army Sergeant Major Jack Harlan holes up on his rural property and tries to ride it out like a responsible adult.

What he gets instead is chaos, desperate survivors, and the realization that staying civilized might be the hardest fight of his life.

Start reading here:

→ Start Here & Full Reading Order

Bougie Apocalypse is my dedicated fiction home. Security n Cigars remains focused on politics, culture, Roman history, and the American Republic.

Thanks for being here. I genuinely appreciate every reader — especially the original group who encouraged me to keep writing after that very first experimental chapter.

Now grab some good coffee and let’s see how long we can keep civilization alive.

Stay human.

— Eric