I'm working on a manuscript set in the same universe as this 99¢ novella. It placed as a “Finalist” in the 2025 Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards.

Spoiler: what happened after the apocalypse ship left Earth?

Just opened the spreadsheet to see Beltran and Jones have the exact same one-decimal percentage of the votes: 79.2%

Math is fun.

"those whippersnappers think they're gonna pile on me? Newsflash, children: this IS my lawn!"

Such as they were, the movie theaters were pretty much the town's social centers in those days.

Came out of Wendys one night to see a Jeep flip in the parking lot while it was doing donuts. Long before they put the landscaping and curbs.

Yeah, those were the days. Saw more than a few there, too, especially when it became the "Buck Fifty" theater. Been closed for decades. The interior is probably trashed by now.

Movies seen: Rocky, Alien, Star Trek The Wrath of Kahn, Blues Brothers, many more.

Now that I mull, the center aisle may have had a strip of carpet, but we were on concrete where we sat.

Frontier Theater in the Frontier Mall in Carson City across from McDonald’s. Long gone. It’s a hot yoga studio at the moment.

"Apocalypse Now" in the theater. Surreal, especially with the sound of a beer bottle rolling down the uncarpeted aisle. Came out of it glad that I was too young to go to Vietnam.