December 1982

Right Side Car on a Left Side Road - Part 2

I’ve been following the train tracks for so long now.

I watched all the movies, read all the books, nothing prepared me for all of this and I’m freaking out, there are barely any infected left but it feels like there’s dead people at the nape of my neck and I’m just trying to find someone who’s still alive like… really alive. 

No success so far. 

I’ve been passing the old train stations every while or so, and every time I see a station phone I use it. I’ve called all the lines to the other stations, I’ve even tried the numbers I found on pinboard notes and those old ones scribbled on the underside of the back desks in the offices.

You remember that empty feeling you got as a kid when you thought you had been abandoned- that maybe everyone had suddenly disappeared off the face of the earth? Remember that deep grueling churn in your stomach? It’s following me along the train tracks.

-Alice Njuma, December 1982

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