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 AliceIsn't Dead.com.

I have to pee and there are no towns on the map, not for a long time,

but there are also no cars.

The absolute silence of miles and miles.

Here there are no lights, no watchers to watch me watching.

It is dusk and the dark clouds are lingering, and the road is visible to the horizon in either

direction. I pull my car onto the muddy shoulder and hop out.

I pull a little off the road, cut your lights, and you're invisible.

I could take her now, of course. There would be no one to see it happen.

It is truly strange standing by this highway and looking for miles into the distance and seeing no one.

I am alone as can be here. I squat and enjoy the silence, the absolute silence of distance.

And how humiliating to die peeing in the dirt. But I'm patient, and that was not the time.

I don't want to cut anything short. I lay back on the hood of my car enjoying its warmth and

look up at the sky. Gray and blank is sleet.

The sky about to break into violence. I close my eyes and I wait.

Alice is dead by Joseph Fink, performed by Jaseken Nicole with Roberta Kalindras, produced by

Disparition, Part 2, Chapter 6, Bad Water. I'm on a plateau and then I come around a turn and I

am looking steeply down into a valley. There has been no change in my elevation,

but the change in perspective is astonishing. I'm going to miss this when it's done.

But nothing lasts forever. To take a few uncertain years from someone's life,

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