Chapter 8 Summary

Saturday, July 26, 2025. Tracy Dunn has not returned. Lauren believes her to be dead. Lauren writes that Tracy Dunn was pregnant. Lauren discusses the gossip surrounding an unmarried seventeen-year-old becoming pregnant, but Lauren's main thought about the pregnancy is wondering why anyone would bring a baby into such an unstable world. Lauren thinks about her boyfriend, Curtis, and she is emphatic that she would never marry and have a bunch of babies in such a world as the one she lives in at the present.

Saturday, August 2, 2025. Lauren discusses the target practice session and the fact that they found the corpse of an elderly woman. After seeing the body, one of the female adults in the group said she does not want to come out for target practice any longer.

Lauren's thirteen-year-old brother, Keith, begs to go with them to shoot, but he is...