When the snow set in exactly, none of them could remember a date for certain. When it took over the world and the world ended, none of them could recall that either. The world frozen over and dank. The passages of time no longer of count. Scarce are the survivors. A girl. Zerelda Jones. Twins. Paul and Pete. A man who leads those who follow him. Jacoby. The second novel by country noir author, JW Lollar, author of The Harvest Black. No one here gets out alive. The story of bleak heroism and starvation, of survival and demise, or fear and the fearless. The gray world swallowed by snow and sorrow and various survivors scant the earth trying to find a way out of it, starve of hope and questionable of tomorrow. The Vacant Sullen is prose at its darkest hour and hope at its etched core.