PARADISE DELI
"I'm not saying I wanna leave Brooklyn I love this city, I really do. It's just... when I first saw those zombies tearing at the doors I thought, fuck yeah, no more of that stupid little counter. It's just terrible, with that bullet proof glass, that's been broken since 2001. Those winning scratch offs, and it's scenic four foot walk to the deep fryer. " - Mitch
Joe and Mitch are your everyday slouches, running a Brooklyn convenience store and contemplating issues of maturity, commitment and...the undead?
After a mass apocalypse turns the borough into a wasteland of survivors and zombie stragglers, the guys spend their days reshelving cat food and shotguns. When the grocery store is destroyed by zombies and a new, bigger opportunity lies ahead in the form of the abandoned brooklyn ikea, Mitch has a chance to change his slackerdom and bring happily rootless Joe with him. Calling on their friends, family, and the entire melting pot of Brooklyn to create a superstore of food, drugs, weapons and the other necessary sundries of a wasteland, joe and mitch build a megastore against the broken skyline. But what does it mean when their problems follow them in the form of mass death, zombified ex girlfriends, and, worse, their own fears of growing up? 24 Hour Grocery is a regular coming of age story where your daily commute means running for your life, and where two friends' fears of change follow them more dangerously than any of the undead.
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OUTSIDE PORTLAND
"Can I please just black out in peace, I've already paid 46 dollars in advance, that will cover just about a quarter of that bottle of Beam, and beers to wash it down with. Than I'll dance far too close to the speakers and fall down twice, we'll go outside, smoke a pipe, come back and I'll pass out on a couch in the Green Room. Leona might help me back home, I might fuck her, and with all hope I won't piss myself. So if you don't mind can I get on with this?" - Ben
Ben is quickly approaching thirty, has a good job reporting the music he loves, surrounded by very talented friends, and is self destructing. Ben hasn’t left the city, let alone his local bar in years, but when a mandatory assignment forces him to cover a show out in Portland, he is forced to go. Without a license or any mode of transportation, he is forced make Nicky, the chef at his local bar, an offer she can't refuse. Reluctantly she accepts and the two take off.
The road trip holds a lot more than just a concert, his sister, a famous artist is doing work for this big show. Which would be great if they had spoken in the last ten years. Along the way Ben and Nicky run into old friends, old flings, and a life that Ben has tried so hard to isolate himself from in NYC. But when his sister is as broken as he is, can the two ever reconcile? When family needs each other the most, can we put the past behind us and look towards the future?