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 don't know what to say. I think this is it.

Is this it? This might be it.

The story that we had been working on with Tamara Levitz at the LA Times,

the one that laid out everything we knew about Bay and Creek and Thistle.

That story's out now. Exhaustively researched. Connections and history even I hadn't

known about and I worked for Bay and Creek for years. We mosquitoes took what was inside of us

and injected it into the whole country. There's no way down from here.

Is this it? This might be it. I don't know what to say. I think this is it.

Alice isn't dead by Joseph Fink, performed by Jasek Anacole and Erica Livingston, produced by

Dispiration. Part three, chapter six. This isn't it.

He's just screamed and pounded the ceiling of the cab. She sounded the truck horn, which was

plus like a holler of happiness and more like an enormous calf, lowing for its mother.

A mournful sound that prophesized what would happen to us next. But in that moment, we were

carried by the raw feeling of it. She didn't know what to do with her hands, which was a little

scary because she was the one driving. The truck wagged with her celebratory movements.

Careful, I said. But I felt myself jumping in my own skin too. Who had time for careful when

this much happiness was there for us to grab? We're done. That's what I was thinking.

What the air in my mouth tasted like. What every sound that came from my mouth said,

even when I was too excited to form them into words. We're done. We get to go home.

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