No Escape!
Once, she thought she saw a figure standing at the end of the street and when she blinked, it was gone.
She started walking anyway knowing she needed to get out of there.
The city she'd known, Chicago, loud and alive was a disaster now, windows stared blankly and billboards burned, and a plane had crashed into an apartment building across the river, its wings jutting out like broken bones. There were bodies everywhere hundreds of them, some slumped in cars and some sprawled in the street, all dried, shriveled, as if the life had been sucked out in an instant. But a few… a few looked fresh.