"The Dream of Debs" is a short story by American writer Jack London, first published in the International Socialist Review in serial form in the issues of January and February 1909.

[1] It was included in the collection of stories by Jack London The Strength of the Strong, published by Macmillan in 1914.

Corf and two other members of his club drive to the edge of the city to steal a cow; having killed it, they are joined by others.

Injured, Corf and his friends, after further incidents and the abandonment of their car when a tire blows, return home without meat.

The streets of San Francisco are deserted; there are abandoned automobiles, and soldiers guard public buildings.

In the country, conditions have become typical of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, in which civilization has collapsed and communication has ceased (as there are no newspapers, and telegraph lines have been cut).