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There were still a lot of people in the coot switched to Fox News and a panel of experts was desperately trying to fill airti that they knew, over and over again She thought it was fascinating how the coverage on the Internet and the coverage on TV were from alternate universes TV was all "terror … terrorist … Al Qaeda…" and the Internet was "zo toward the elevator and headed down, out of the building She needed air

The ca truck was pulled up in front of the building and there was a line three wide and ten deep in front of it Auy a happy birthday--his was one of the over two hundred birthdays programmed into the calendar app on her phone He sht, one per customer Not because of his birthday, but because of the other thing

She passed a flyer posted to a utility pole with a huge letter Z on it, which she ignored, but then she passed another one, and another Then she arrived at the visitor’s parking lot and found one under the windshield of David’s truck (and all of the other cars) and read it:

Zombie nerds They probably had the flyers already made up for this There was nobody creepier than the zouys who not only watched zoa weapons Gun shops around there actually stocked zolow-in-the-dark tips Not toy bullets, o out in the woods and train and shoot and defend to the death their right to stay in childhood until age thirty-five

She cli anywhere She had never learned to drive, her car accident happened not long before she would have been due to take her Driver’s Ed courses in high school She never got back around to it after she went back to school and now the thought of it terrified her She didn’t kno anybody did it Hurtling down the highway at 65toward you like huge cannon shells, whipping past in the next lane, just five feet froes your steering wheel at the wrong tihetti wrapped around bundles of twisted steel She’d yell at David for eating while he drove, a Coke between his legs and a haht It’s like nobody in the world gets how fragile life is How fragile our bodies are

A to stop about tensore She turned the flyer over and found a pen in her purse She held the flyer to her thigh with the stuht She wasa list

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John said that’s as on the scene of the house fire, which made sense because this was sort of a disease If so, at soet in contact with their loved ones inside quarantine There’d be riots otherwise They were still A as the Constitution All she needed them to do was confirm that David was okay, even if she wasn’t allowed to see hi David

One way or the other, it didn’t seeovernment could really shut down all forms of communication Not in the twenty-first century She could have John post a , she would post on Facebook, she would e-ain Write a paper letter addressed to the Undisclosed quarantine operation sent ATTN: David Wong

It was driving her crazy, not knowing Where was he right now? At this ue tent or soht for a et hie

His house had burned down ThatClothes Heartburn pills Replacement contact lenses in case he lost one Dandruff shampoo Some Oreos A book