Hi everyone, sorry I've been out of touch the last few days. I had a shift change at work and ended up with an unexpected 4 day weekend, and since my girlfriend is in Brisbane (anyone reading this from Australia?) I went camping by myself.

I spent the last 3 days sitting on a boat, fishing, hiking, and sleeping in a tent (and eating jerky because I barely caught anything). I left my phone in the truck and only checked it 1-2 times a day. I told myself I would ignore RR until I was back because some of the negative ratings were bumming me out (I cheated and still checked). Great weekend, but I'm back now. I did some writing, as well. I have about 3200 - 3500 handwritten words. It'll probably be 2 chapters once I type it out and edit it. I'll release the first late tonight/early tomorrow.

edit: I've learned a lot of readers are from Australia! Wow, it's amazing to have international readers and I probably have RR to thank for that. It also makes sense why a few people were confused and voiced concern in the comments about everyone having guns and no one trying to conserve ammo - American gun culture is strong in SC. I have friends with whole arsenals (even I have a bow, shotgun, and several long guns and I'm a bleeding heart liberal by SC standards), and it should be assumed that any male (maybe a quarter of the girls) in the story has a 50/50 chance of having grown up using guns. Also, the survivors should be assumed to have millions, tens of millions, of rounds of ammo. They'd have that just by raiding a couple gun stores and a Walmart - or a prepper's house (I know whose house I'd hit up after an apocalypse). Please no gun control debate, just wanted to clarify that point.

For the point of the story, guns and ammo can be considered a near unlimited resource.