"The below story, "Bannerless," appears in The End Has Come, a new anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction edited by Hugh Howey and myself. It was released May 1. The End Has Come is part of The Apocalypse Triptych, a three-volume anthology series, in which each volume focuses on a different facet of the apocalypse: before the apocalypse (volume 1); during the apocalypse (volume 2); and after the apocalypse (volume 3).
‘Bannerless'
by Carrie Vaughn
Enid and Bert walked the ten miles from the way station because the weather was good, a beautiful spring day. Enid had never worked with the young man before, but he turned out to be good company: chatty without being oppressively extroverted. Young, built like a redwood, he looked the part of an investigator. They talked about home and the weather and trivialities — but not the case. She didn't like to dwell on the cases she was assigned to before getting a firsthand look at them. She had expected Bert to ask questions about it, but he was taking her lead.
On this stretch of the Coast Road, halfway between the way station and Southtown, ruins were visible in the distance, to the east. An old sprawling city from before the big fall. In her travels in her younger days, she'd gone into it a few times, to shout into the echoing artificial canyons and study overgrown asphalt roads and cracked walls with fallen roofs. She rarely saw people, but often saw old cook fires and cobbled together shantytowns that couldn't support the lives struggling within them. Scavengers and scattered folk still came out from them sometimes, then faded back to the concrete enclaves, surviving however they survived…"
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