The skies have blackened with volcanic ash and savage storms, an electromagnetic pulse has wiped out anything with technology more advanced than crude integrated circuits or transistors. The beliefs of the masses have awakened their worst nightmares in the shadows. It's going to be a rough couple of months until the skies clear, and daylight shines back on the surface of the world.
Where do you live? What creatures are awakened in the shadows near you? How are people learning to survive?
Give me a few quick sentences about where you are and how things develop during the apocalypse in your part of the world.