After a plague has wiped out most of humanity, Jimmy opens up a roadside cafe on the median of I-95, just north of the Fallston exit. There he sits in his lawn chair, surrounded by dead cars, waiting to welcome any survivors or those who haven’t quite succumbed to the plague yet.
This is a quiet, thoughtful story full of humanity. Shehadeh remains vague about the plague, never going into much detail. Instead he focuses on the interactions of a few survivors, showing how people deal with disaster, each other and being alone.
