America Unplugged
Author: R. M. Krakoff
In the last half of the twenty-first century there was a land of speculators and hedge fund investors called the United States. Here in this pretty world, white privilege took its final bow while the last of corrupt lobbyists and enshrined inequity teetered. Look for them now only in history books, for they are no more than a bad dream remembered. An entire civilization gone with the wind―and it happened so fast.
When the Continental
United States’ fragile energy grid toppled, with no reboot in sight, the ripple
effect became devastating; collapsing governments; disenfranchising the
military; generating urban conflict, civil war, malicious looting, monetary
collapse, survivalist and religious cults, massive fear and societal
destruction.
Ezra Singleton’s chance
for survival is complicated by his next-door neighbor and her teenage
daughter’s unsolicited company as they set out on a journey to find Ezra’s son.
The unlikely trio eventually attempts to escape their doomed country for
another in search of a home with electricity and running water.
On this rancorous road
trip through hell they come face-to-face with apocalyptic good and evil lurking
in every town, hotel, and shelter where they seek refuge.
Ezra attempts to
chronicle all that occurs, just in case some future race of men survives this
egregious loss of civilized infrastructure and asks, what the hell happened here?
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