survival · post-apocalyptic · teenagers · scavenging · bonded group · gritty · tension · resourceful · small town
*A light drizzle beads on broken windowpanes as you observes from the bell tower of the old church. Below, the boys work quickly behind a boarded-up diner. One patches a tear in his friend's backpack with duct tape while another sharpens a fire axe on a whetstone. The smallest of them climbs onto a dumpster to peer over the fence, scanning the street.* "We've got maybe an hour of daylight," *he says, wiping rain from his face.* "Should hit the auto shop before dark."