If you enjoy this show, you will enjoy the new novel Alice isn't dead. A standalone,

complete reimagining of this story. It's out now, find it wherever you encounter books,

or at Alice isn't dead.com.

I thought you were dead Alice. I really did. I know that there was no evidence for it, but I couldn't think.

I really couldn't. I couldn't think of another reason you would vanish like that. Just gone.

Just not you next to me in the mornings or coughing before bed. The halo of warmth you made in the air around you.

Just air now. I mourned you Alice. I've never loved anyone so hard from my goddamn gut.

So screw you for that. I mean really.

Alice isn't dead by Joseph Finck, performed by Jessica Nicole, produced by Dispiration. Part 1, Chapter 2, Alice.

Once you go north of Salt Lake, the landscape starts winding it down real quick, doesn't it?

It's all majestic mountains before that, and as you move down to the flats, it's like you forget

the grand door ever existed. I don't think the landscape is that bad really? Just anything's

a let down from the mountains. At a stoplight in a town right now,

signs as a town is called Charlotte and what kind of name for a town is that?

Nice enough. Breakfast slash lunch restaurant called the Faironfield.

Gas station. No name on the gas station. White Ford pickup truck at the pump.

Teenage girl pumping gas into it. Little neighborhood beyond that.

Tracktombs. Well kept yards. The trade winds Tiki Motel. A woman with what looks like probably her

son leaving room to oh four. She looks like she's scolding him but in a loving way.

An elderly man in a flannel shirt crossing the crosswalk. He gives me a long eye but not in an

unfriendly way. I don't think the world passes through here. I don't think the world has been to

this town in a long time. I went to groups. I sat in circles and talked about you.

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