PRIORITIES
There are more than a thousand corpses outside the house in Ashbourne Close, and at least as many more again dragging themselves towards the mouth of the cul-de-sac. They come because they know there are survivors here. The reasons why they come are unclear and unimportant. The only thing that matters is that even now, almost a month after the beginning of the end of everything, there’s no let up. They just keep coming.
Inside number nine live Stuart and Gabby Parker and their seventeen year-old son, Nathan. They haven’t set foot outside for almost thirty days. There’s no question, they’ve done spectacularly well to survive this long. In fact, if you were to start at their house and search outwards, you’d have to travel more than thirty-two miles before you found anyone else s
