The Hunger of Men — A Story That Feeds on What’s Left of Us
From the Pen of Thomas Miller — Palatka, Florida
When the government turned off the food, the lights went out long before the power did.
In the small Florida town of Palatka, people learned that hunger isn’t just about the stomach — it’s about what happens to mercy when the cupboards go bare. The Hunger of Men doesn’t start with monsters, but by the time it ends, you’ll wonder if maybe they were always here, waiting inside the skin of good people who ran out of choices.
The first sign of collapse wasn’t war — it was an announcement. A voice on every television in America saying the Federal Food Relief Program was “temporarily suspended.” That single word — temporary — became the most dangerous lie ever told. Shelves emptied, tempers thinned, and by the time Sheriff Barny McMillin drew his pistol in a grocery line, Palatka was already a ghost of what it used to be.
But this book isn’t about the end of the world — it’s about what we cling to after the end arrives. Jill Carroway, Barny’s ex-wife, keeps the last light burning with a pot of soup and a steady voice. She feeds strangers, calms mobs, and holds the line between decency and desperation with nothing but a ladle and her will. Between Jill and Barny runs a river of history, pride, and guilt — and as the world starves, both will learn that survival without compassion is just another kind of death.
When the St. Johns River starts to glow with fire, when rumors of “the Devourers” creep up from the ash, when law itself turns into a weapon — that’s when The Hunger of Men shows its teeth. It’s not a story of apocalypse, but of reckoning. It asks the question no hero movie dares: what does goodness cost when the world can’t afford it anymore?
And yet, amid the smoke, there are moments that still breathe — a bell that rings twice for mercy, a man’s final act of redemption, a town learning to share again after losing everything. Because even when hunger wins, humanity doesn’t die easy.
If you’ve ever wondered how close we all stand to the edge — and what might save us when we fall — you’ll find your answer in The Hunger of Men.
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