Introduction
Not many people have written books in the past 38 years. So nowadays every book that gets written sort of has to be a history book and a philosophy book and a survival book too. I'd be doing you a disservice if I didn't tell you what I know about how things got to be the way they are and offer you some ideas about how to get things back to the way they were.
This is the story of how we killed some people while trekking across the USA on Route 66 trying to rediscover the American Dream. 22000 words. 110 pages. 5 illustrations. Short sentences. No commas. No descriptions. Gimme two hours of your life. I'm not gonna waste your time.
Act I
Chapter 0: Tomorrowland
Firebird is the gatekeeper at an event he calls Tomorrowland Weekend. He saves the life of a man who turns out to be the leader of a tribe called the Hellies. The Hellies are at war with a rival tribe known as the Gillies. The Gillies turn against Firebird for saving the Helly leader.
Chapter 1: Dorktown
A girl named Dorktown inspires both Firebird and his nemesis, Mohawk Asshole, to battle it out to achieve the same goal: to build the first new cars the world has seen since the apocalypse. Firebird and Mohawk Asshole both make plans to recommission an old General Motors factory. Dorktown reveals to Firebird that Mohawk Asshole is their common enemy. They agree to cooperate in killing him. The war between the Hellies and the Gillies escalates and they burn down Tomorrowland Weekend. Firebird saves Dorktown from the flames. Mohawk Asshole's minion Chumdumpster steals all of Firebird's money.
Chapter 3: Van Nuys
As Firebird and Dorktown chase Mohawk Asshole and Chumdumpster to the old GM factory in Van Nuys, they discuss what it would take to revive the prosperity that prevailed in the times before the apocalypse. Firebird and Dorktown find the Van Nuys factory in ruins, and they battle Mohawk Asshole and Chumpdumpster for the scraps. Firebird and Dorktown begin the cross-country journey to the other Firebird factory in Norwood, Ohio, with Mohawk Asshole and Chumdumpster on their tail.
Midpoint
Chapter 4: Seligman
Tensions rise between Firebird and Dorktown. Firebird refuses to show his allegiance to the Hellies and in doing so he makes an enemy of them, too. The Hellies and the Gillies converge on Firebird's hideout in Seligman, Arizona and do battle.
Chapter 5: Amarillo
Firebird makes an irreversible decision and appears to give up on trying to retain his humanity in a world gone mad.
Act III
Chapter 6: Norwood
Will a new Pontiac Firebird be built in Norwood? Or will the Hellies and the Gillies burn it all down?
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