A teenage truck stop clerk. A nurse. The staff and inmates of a high security prison. A Major in the United States Army. A child care worker. An inmate in an institution for the criminally insane. Different careers. Different backgrounds. All find themselves suddenly caught up in the beginning of the end. Set in north eastern New Mexico, this is a collection of stories of every day citizens who run and hide during the beginning of a viral zombie outbreak. Who lives? Who dies? Read the accounts of these citizens with nothing more in common than a time line.