This week with Times 7:
...Thad whistled through his teeth. “This is more than a power outage,” he said while leaning through a glassless window to shine his light around inside an adjoining store. From the looks of things, this must have happened months ago.”
Mack shined the light across the mall, lighting what appeared to be the entrance to a much larger building at the end of the vast parking lot. “That looks like what in my time was called an All-store. It should have a large assortment of sales goods. Maybe there’s something left that we can use,” he said through teeth clenched to keep them from chattering.
After looking around for a few seconds, Mack switched the light off. “Look, I’m uncomfortable with all this. I think we had better dispense with the lights while we’re out in the open, and we should be very cautious about anything we do here. I don’t know what’s happening, but almost anyone we attract will probably be trouble for us. The city might even have declared martial law and are shooting looters – which they would take us to be,” he finished grimly...
Have a goodun;
Roust