Hope exhorted Undead Elvis to hurry. She had a sense that something bad was approaching, and they needed to leave the desert oasis before it arrived to devour them. Carrying water would be more difficult. Besides the gallon jug Gabe had carried in The Way, Hope found no other containers. She dran...
Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and t...
After a few minutes, Faith and Irlene realized they couldn’t stop every looter or douse every fire. At first, Irlene would shrink looters down to the size of G.I. Joe dolls, which was enough to keep all but the most motivated thieves from continuing. She assured Faith it wore off after several ho...
You hold on to things that were. You wonder what’s to come. But that night, I think we knew it was time to let go of what had been, and look ahead to what would be. Other days. New days. Days to come. The thing is, we didn’t have to hate each other for getting older. We just had to forgive oursel...