The end is here. Out of the ashes, the players left standing look towards the road ahead – and it is one fraught with challenges. Can two disparate groups band together to successfully thwart a common enemy? Or is that enemy too powerful – too ruthless – too determined – to be stopped? Part 5 [...]

Maria makes a stand. Panic strikes the Dwellers. The boys have come down charging from the mountain – horror, horror on the horizon. Fire rains from the sky. And all that stands between the scraps of society and annihilation is one determined young girl behind the sights of an aircraft cannon. Part 4 of 5 [...]

This is the big one. Paul and his angels spill into the streets of the Republic, bearing arms and determined to destroy the Citadel – the source of electricity for the city. Meanwhile, Saul, the master of the shadows, has his own designs. The stage is set for a mighty war, and no one will [...]

Victory is at hand for Richard and the New Republic. The coordinates of Prophet and the Dwellers is known. A ship is deployed, a bottle of scotch is opened, and a rare thing – music – is turned on. But a shadow lurks behind this puppetmaster, and even as Richard watches his greatest plans unfold, [...]

The stage has been set for an incredible battle. John Prophet is locked up, awaiting his fate at the hands of the Dwellers’ justice. Their “BOL” in rural Maine seems far, far away from the troubles afflicting old New York, but this feeling of safety is about to be annihilated. Because in an open field, [...]

While John is pulled off by the Dweller warriors to face his fate, in the Republic, things get interesting. One of John’s surviving Rebels comes to Saul, offering a secret. Saul, intrigued, learns a bit more… and protects what needs protecting. The stage is set for a great battle. Part 4 of 4 of Episode [...]

Prophet tells his story. We learn of the City of Corinth – of what became of the ashes that were New York City after the Breaking and of… The people that came next. The promise of glory, the promise of a return, and the secret hand dealt by the powerful. Part 3 of 4 of [...]

Luke and Maria follow Marc to see a little deeper under the layer of Dweller society – the mushroom logs, the buckskin, the horse sheds that make up daily life. Just as three youths are finding common ground in a strange world, Prophet is dragged out kicking and screaming before an angry mob, who puts [...]

With horrors behind them and uncertainty ahead of them, Luke and Maria must come to terms — the road without each other is too frightening. Meanwhile, they have a new friend, one of the Dwellers who shows them beneath the surface of a world that has existed nearby to them their whole lives that they’ve [...]

Prophet’s men have been lost without their leader. Saul appeared to have the most noble of intentions when taking them in, but unease is setting in. Saul’s men are brutish. Cruel. And Saul himself? There is a gleam in his eye. A spring in his step. And sharp, sharp teeth when he smiles. This week, [...]

Caitlin, healer and matriarch for the Dwellers, has taken the case of John Prophet to heart.  The rasping, winded, infected man is at death’s door, and Maria and Sam stand outside it, listening.  As they wait, the past comes out to haunt them all in a way they never expected MAJOR SPOILER revealed in this [...]

Ever since the dramatic performance in the Chapel, Lucian’s world has been a little inside-out.  Amos mysteriously disappeared during the service, and now, the righteous come up to his ear whispering of dark times to come.  Will Lucian stand up to serve Jesus – and the man who claims to be his voice – or [...]

As quickly as the fury raged, it has passed, leaving only coal and ashes in its place.  The Dwellers and the Refuge stand at an impasse – where to go now that blood has spilled?  A courageous young girl holds the hope to a new union, as she pleads for the life of a fugitive [...]

Rage burns in David’s blood, as hot and incendiary as the coals which lit the crops of The Refuge into a blaze that may leave his people hungry as the brutal winter comes on. As David and his buddy Chris careen on the biodiesel powered ATV “Moby,” Sam, John and the youths land on shore [...]

EPISODE 5 – PART 4 of 4 Zeke wears a new uniform, which fits uncomfortably. Richard waxes on the greatness of the world that was – this is an attempt to teach the boy about “The Real Thing.” While wheels start grinding towards Saul’s next move, Lucian meets a strange group of “Angels” and our [...]

EPISODE 5 – PART 3 of 4 Amos and Lucian arrive at the home of the Believers  - a group of evangelical survivalists who seem just a little too friendly.  But after being fed and welcomed with open arms, they step into the Chapel.  It is there, that one is Cleansed.

EPISODE 5 – PART 2 of 4 Amos wakes on a train after a night of grim dreams, but his nightmares aren’t over – he is far from his home, on a train headed to the home of a religious group called the Believers. Lucian is at his side for the journey, and Paul assures [...]

In the wake of the nightmare that was Tully’s barn, Sam appears ready to go to battle. But there is no battle left, and no chance to help but to mop up the mess. Marc, a wounded young warrior from the Dwellers, keeps his lips tight about his homeland and his plight, but it’s clear [...]

EPISODE 4 – PART 4 of 4 The horror of Tully’s barn not far behind her, Maria wakes with a start in a truck somewhere in the lot of the ‘doomsday fortress’ out in the backyard. It’s a new day, but the horror of the night before lingers close, and as John snoozes, Maria can’t [...]

EPISODE 4 – PART 3 of 4 On their way crossing through a barbed-wire laden, wrecked car ravaged, hydro-mill spinning savagery of a homestead, John and Maria were separated and Tully the pig man threw Maria into his barn. Only a small gate stands between her and Tully’s snarling, hungry beasts. Is there any escape [...]

EPISODE 4 – PART 2 of 4 Lucian’s hands are bloody, and his spirit broken. He is in the “Soup” – the sewers of Corinth – and meditates on his place in this fallen world. But, a voice from the darkness call hims, and a ray of hope still shines… Part 2 of 4 of [...]

EPISODE 4 – PART 1 of 4 Having made her decision to continue on the journey, Maria follows John’s direction and steers their canoe downriver. But evils lay before them in this torn land. In a bleak homely homestead in the woods, amidst stacks of rusted up junk cars and a hodge-podge hydro-mill, Maria and [...]

EPISODE 3 – PART 4 of 4 All that’s left of the Refuge are smoldering ashes, but in the darkest hour, David swears they will revenge – even as his men plead that he rebuilds. Vengeance is felt in the ragged lands of the Republic, too, where Lucian is pushed to his point of breaking. [...]

EPISODE 3 – PART 3 of 4 Maria heads deeper into the forest, looking for an object John has stashed away that will unlock the next stage of the journey. John poses a question to her that forces her to put everything on the line. Will Maria step through the door that John has opened? [...]

EPISODE 3 – PART 2 of 4 The Refuge has been ravaged by the Dwellers, and Maria and John trek deeper into the woods. In the Republic Saul appears, working his games, paraded before the council of the Republic who are all to eager to dole out prizes after the greatness of ‘C-Day.’ Zeke awakens [...]

EPISODE 3 – PART 1 of 4 Dawn is a dim glow on the horizon of the Refuge when savage cries echo from the horizon. Moments later, the chalky rain-starved land turns into an inferno that David and his motley survivors must stop at all costs. Further down the river, Prophet collapses into a heap [...]

EPISODE 2 – PART 4 of 4 Chapter Prep: There is cheering, parading, fanfare in the streets. The Republic celebrates the downfall of John Prophet, calling him oppressor and turning on the electricity of a machine called the Citadel. In the shadows of this celebration, a dark figure has allied John Prophet’s lost soldiers to [...]

EPISODE 2 – PART 3 of 4 Chapter Prep: There is cheering, parading, fanfare in the streets. The Republic celebrates the downfall of John Prophet, calling him oppressor and turning on the electricity of a machine called the Citadel. In the shadows of this celebration, a dark figure has allied John Prophet’s lost soldiers to [...]

EPISODE 2 – PART 2 of 4 Far from the safety of the Refuge lies the City of Corinth, a broken place that once called itself New York. From the ashes, John Prophet emerged, uniting disparate groups and pushing out rival gangs. The city lay in – well, not quite peace – but a state [...]