The apocalypse, survived by the people who hold a neighborhood together.
A mutated measles virus called Ruby burned through the country. Survival didn’t look like the movies — it looked like a garden, a council that meets on Tuesdays, and a few dozen people deciding, week by week, what they owe each other.
Most stories about the end of the world are about the people with the guns. These are about everyone else — the ones who plant, cook, mediate, keep the records, and refuse to let the block fall apart.
For readers who always suspected the apocalypse would be survived by the people who knew how to organize a potluck.
Book One
The Neighborhood
Coming Soon
Two and a half years in, Creekside works — the garden produces at scale, the council meets on Tuesdays, Friday dinners happen in the cul-de-sac. Then a fuel convoy has to drive to Houston and back, a neighbor refuses to be part of what they’re becoming, and something starts watching from the treeline. Staying alive, it turns out, was the easy part.
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