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 Aliceisnted.com.

Once in a better life, Alice and I took a very different kind of road trip,

from Dubrovnik in Croatia through the Serbian region of Bosnia to Mostar.

We got to the rental place and the man at the counter drove us in his personal car several

miles to a residential neighborhood overlooking the sea. There, above a stunning panorama of water

and sky, he showed us a beat-up sedan with bald and cracking tires.

We're driving over the mountains, you said. It's supposed to rain later? This car will kill us.

The man assured us that this was the only automatic transmission available in southern Croatia.

Neither of us knew how to drive manual, not yet. I looked to you to see your decision.

You were always the driver then. I didn't like driving. I do now, or maybe I've just convinced myself I do.

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

Part 2, Chapter 3, Abandoned Places.

Every time I think of hiding somewhere, of giving up my search into Bayon Creek,

I see a black boat sinking in the mouth of a river.

And so, I went back to looking, and it wasn't long before I again found the woman who led the

Bayon Creek Army that night in the Thistle Town. She worked the same routes we all do.

Once again, I followed. She's the first and only and best lead I have, and this time I wasn't about to

lose her. Following is difficult in a truck. While it is ubiquitous on our highways, it's also

well pretty visible. So instead of following, I did my best to anticipate her.

I cut across her likely route on a road that a truck should not drive on.

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