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"When do things get to be sie?" I whispered "Ever?"

They weren’t siin with, she said

I didn’t have a coarden and breathed in the s for the world to slon Just a little bit Just long enough to let us rest before the next storh Was that really so much to ask? I just wanted to rest

Just for a little while

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead

Things ind up discussing at the dinner table every single night: politics, religion, and the walking dead Along with se-caliber weapons for field use, personal security gear, Maggie’s garden, our ratings, and vehicle maintenance It’s very claustrophobic and intense, with everyone on top of everybody else pretty much all the time There’s no real privacy, and there’s soa production as getting in It’s like a fked-up combination of prison and summer camp

Is it weird that this is what I always dreamed the neould be like? Because, God, , but this is the most fun I’ve ever had I want someone to remind me I said that when it all turns around and bites us in the ass

--Fro of Rebecca Atherton, May 9, 2041 Unpublished

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--Fro of Rebecca Atherton, May 9, 2041

Seventeen

Five days ticked by with li

ttle fanfare Becks and I went shooting in the woods outside of town, clearing out a mixed mob of zombie humans and cows Once the disease takes over, species isn’t an issue anyarden, and avoiding Kelly, who took over the dining roos none of the rest of us could understand Alaric hung out with her, listening, taking notes, and nodding a lot It was aleeky sort of way

Those five days ood ti when I arden; I don’t know I just know that I asked for tiot it Nothing exploded There were no outbreaks and no e to pull us away fro ourselves back into a teaether, distinguished from each other only by the activity in the foru

Kelly continued her series of guest articles under the Barbara Tinney byline It wasn’t exactly a runaway hit, but it was popular--surprisingly so I always forget howexcuses for their crazy The profits Kelly’s coluie, where they could help pay for our roo thing She also took the uilty about the ere intruding

Becksthat the air mattress was better for her back than the couch was for uest roo in the living rooht withready to cram in soiven us More important, I needed to understand the research Mahir was hopefully sweet-talking so to et the to be certain I knehat they were dying for It was the only pro able to keep

When I wasn’t studying, I was ht not have much in the way of manpower, but we had connections, and it was time to exploit them Rick’s ascent from Newsie to vice president of the United States isn’t a normal career path for either a journalist or a politician, but hey, it’s worked out pretty well for hi his office, once a day at first, then twice a day, until it beca to call me back That wasn’t like him Not even a little bit And that worried me

The days rolled on Alaric started a series on the rise of digital profiling and its applications in thefor zombies she could harass on camera; she came back with powder burns, bruises, and twice asthe first one ht with half a dozen emotions it was hard to put into words That used to be athering "no shit, there I was" stories fro That used to be all I wanted in the world Everything changed when George died Sometimes I read the articles that Becks posts and I wonder whether theI don’t think he’d like the new ie about the silence froreed that it was best if we kept it between us, at least for now Everyone was freaked out enough without adding that little wrinkle to the iven at least half of the, appearing on the doorstep and in the kitchen like they’d been there all along Most of theht pizza, or cookies, or sah they were all technically part of the site staff They walked on eggshells around everyone but Maggie, and we started using their visits as excuses for equiproceries Once their grindhouse parties got started, they could go for hours, watching crappy pre-Rising horror allons of popcorn I didn’t realize how antisocial I was beco until the Fictionals started to descend, and all I could think of was how quickly I could get away