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Isherwood Williams, a college student working on his thesis, is in the Black Creek Area when he finds an old miner's hammer and is bitten by a rattlesnake. He's not aware of the fact that the "acting president" of the United State has suspended governmental operations and that burials at sea in California have now been abandoned. Ish survives the snakebite coupled with something that he calls an infection then heads back toward his parent's home. On the way, he encounters no one other than a single dead body on the side of the road then finds a newspaper reporting of the crisis. Ish finds his parents gone and stays at his house on San Lupo Drive for a short time. He finds a few survivors but they seem to represent the dregs of society or have gone insane from the shock. He loads up a station wagon with supplies...
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