Doom. Devastation. Death. Destruction. It seems that no matter what direction he looks, Clay Sanders can see little else. He has tried to maintain at least a small oasis of safety for the people closest to him. But that bubble is constantly threatened by those who want it for themselves or want to deny it to Clay and his family and friends, even though it belongs to them.

The farm has already suffered, but what they have seen thus far has been nothing but a warm-up. Things are about to reach a new level, and there is absolutely nothing Clay or his friends can do to stop it or even slow it down. Clay knows that, as do the other former soldiers.

The others are about to learn it the hard way. Friends will betray, families will suffer, brothers will bleed and die. Hard work and sacrifice will be lost to hard feelings, envy, and strife. Bridges built since the catastrophe will crash and burn, destroyed by lies and mistrust and not a little jealousy and a great deal of entitlement.

Even at the end of the world as we know it, there are some who seem to think the world revolves around them and no one else. Trouble is on the horizon, even though another brand of trouble is already staring them in the eyes. Even as they try to build up, there are others waiting to set it afire.

But the farm's enemies are about to learn that nothing burns like hellfire.

A post-apocalyptic fiction by N.C. Reed.