When the last victims of the Plague died in 2012, Eileen Woodlawn was one of five people left alive from a town of forty-thousand. They joined fifteen more survivors on the walk to the Paleola River where they salvaged a farm. With too few people left to run a power plant, maintain the water supply or the gas lines, or much of anything else from their former lives, they had nothing left to use except arable land. See more

Miriam is not afraid to make a scene. See more

Roy's been waiting all night to hear that Lydia's okay. See More. This piece does not appear in the book.