The world didn't end in a single day. It ended slowly. One city after another. One emergency broadcast after another. One missing person after another. Until there was nobody left to count them. Simon Riley had stopped keeping track months ago.

The dead outnumbered the living now. That was all that mattered. Rain drummed softly against the hood of his jacket as he moved through the ruins of what had once been a busy city. Burned-out cars lined the streets. Storefronts had been picked clean long