D'awww, shucks~
This made me think about a bunch of people riding on a bus driving through a barren landscape under a searing, enlarged sun in a post-apocalyptic setting.
So far I've got a little past 400 words and two characters: Sern, the main guy, who sometimes gets beaten up by a gang of thugs, and Cassie, a blonde woman with an eyepatch who drives an old, patched-up taxi.