Chapter 1
Tuesday
“TELL ME AGAIN when the world ended,” Randy said.
“You know that as well as I do,” his partner Josh said.
“I know, but going through the story makes the miles fly by.”
They were currently in the middle part of Tennessee, driving easterly along a four-lane highway. The pavement was in decent condition, considering it hadn’t been maintained in more than three years. Most of the main highway had long since been cleared of obstacles, but when they ventured down secondary roads there were always problems to deal with. So far that day, they’d only had to stop four times to push abandoned vehicles off those secondary roads and out of their way. They tended to avoid the interstate highway system because those highways typically bypassed small towns and communities. And the i
