132- Earth Abides Part 2

You, finding life, rather dull, dreaming again of exotic places, wishing you were somewhere else, we offer you escape." Today with the performance of John Dainer as Isherwood Williams, escape brings you one of the most unusual and terrifying stories of recent years.

George Stewart's powerful novel, Earth Abides. If you should awake some morning, tomorrow morning let's say, if you should awake to a man dead world where virtually all of human life had been destroyed from the face of the earth, leaving behind only buildings, bridges, machines, if you should awake to such a world, tomorrow morning, what would you do?

Where would you go? This is the year three. My name is Isherwood Williams. Three years since I returned from the lonely mountain country of Northern California to find that mankind had virtually vanished from the earth. Some unknown virus had discouraged him from his high place among animals. His great cities were tombs. His entire civilization was crumbling. I toured the emptiness that had

once been called America, from the silent towers of Manhattan, to the Golden Gate Bridge I saw in all ten human beings still alive. In the fourth month after my return to San Francisco I saw a light on Knob Hill, which there I found in, who became my wife.

Year one passed. We call it the year of the baby. Year two we call the year of the rats. Now it was year three. M, the baby and I were struggling for existence amid the fast decaying wealth of San Francisco.

Oh, all right, now be careful, Keblen. Is it funny? It always makes me feel like I'm doing something wrong. Now I'm breaking into the biggest food store on markets, Street. Not wrong M, there's no private property anymore.