Rise of the Governor

It ain’t the dead things you gotta be mindful of around here … it’s the living.

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you. —Nietzsche

Chaos theory is the impossibility of a closed system remaining stable. This town is doomed. There’s nobody at the controls …

It’s never-ever going to be okay, never-ever-ever-ever-ever.

Nick looks into Brians hollow gaze. "That's what's going on here brian. The devil's figured out a way to keep peoples souls trapped here on earth.

It is why he got the hell out of his hometown, Waynesboro, two days ago.

Brian discovers that this first group features two bricklayers, a machinist, a doctor, a gun-store owner, a veterinarian, a plumber, a barber, an auto mechanic, a farmer, a fry cook, and an electrician. The second group—Brian thinks of them as the Dependents—features the sick, the young, and all the white-collar workers with obscure administrative backgrounds. These are the former middle managers and office drones, the paper pushers and corporate executives who once pulled down six-figure incomes running divisions of huge multinationals—now just taking up space, as obsolete as cassette tapes.

A severed ear sticks to the windshield, and Philip puts the wipers on. They