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In line at a waste station, my butt has gone completely numb and my lower back is killing me.

Scientists can't seem to agree on how fatal sitting down for long periods is, except in the

general sense that everything eventually is fatal. But sitting sure is uncomfortable.

Especially for me, I don't like to sit down even for a little while if I can avoid it.

Something to do with my knees, a doctor once told me.

They're set a little to the side. She took one look at my knees and said, you don't like to sit down,

do you? Like palm reading but knee reading.

I'm not sitting.

Me how just sit here uncomfortable and guilty about what happened in Victorville, about what I have to do next.

Alice isn't dead by Joseph Fink, performed by Jessica Nicole, produced by disparition.

Part 1. Chapter 8. The Other Town.

I parked my truck outside of town, about a very cheap used car from an ad online.

This barely runs, the man said, as I picked up the car from his driveway.

Oh, last a year.

Who's thinking that far ahead? I said, and I drove off.

I wasn't sure where to start. Victorville is small, but not that small.

A slice of suburb too far from the city to be a suburb.

Strip malls and industry and agriculture and the great desert close around it,

making every apartment complex and shopping center seem no more permanent than the wisps of grass along the road.

Spent a few days going to local businesses, eating pizza, get my nails done,

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