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🗓️ 17 July 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Man, this isn’t even close to the weirdest thing.
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Music & Production: Disparition, disparition.info. Written by Joseph Fink. Performed by Jasika Nicole and Erica Livingston. Logo by Rob Wilson, robwilsonwork.com. Part of the Night Vale Presents network.
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0:00.0 | If you enjoy this show, you will enjoy the new novel Alice isn't dead, a standalone complete |
0:07.1 | reimagining of this story. It's out now, find it wherever you encounter books, or at AliceIsn't Dead.com. |
0:18.0 | In St. Louis, across the street from a lunar theme hotel with a rotating artificial moon on its |
0:23.9 | roof, there is the remains of a fast food drive-through. I don't know how long it's been abandoned, |
0:31.9 | but long enough that someone, the owner, or the city, or some street artist or who knows, |
0:38.6 | covered all the windows in a stained glass patterned wrap. So you have this little church of an old |
0:44.7 | fast food joint. It's beautiful and odd. Alice and I happen by it and for fun, we hop the fence |
0:54.8 | and walk the drive-through. The whole system is still there, though it's missing a menu and a lot |
1:01.0 | of its parts. The speaker still stands crooked, leaning into where cars full of the hungry and |
1:06.8 | stoneed once passed. We stand there a moment and I dare to kiss her and she dares to let me. |
1:14.3 | It's been better between us. We went through the trauma of defeat and now we have the drive of a |
1:20.0 | mission and both have started to patch over the wounds of our past. And just as we kiss, |
1:27.2 | the speaker of this long dead drive-through crackles to life and we hear muffled voices and joyful |
1:32.8 | laughter through layers and layers of static. It sounds like a message from the dead or from another world. |
1:42.9 | This place is empty right, I say, as the speaker burbles away at us. I'm starting to think nowhere's |
1:49.6 | actually empty, she says. |
2:02.8 | Alice is in dead by Joseph Fink, performed by Jessica Nicole |
2:32.8 | and Erica Livingston, produced by disparition. Part 3, Chapter 7, speakers. |
2:43.0 | We had decided to organize. It is an overwhelming goal to organize a country, but it starts with |
2:50.9 | the people around you. And so we reached out where we could to the network of safe houses and |
2:57.6 | anarchist groups that Sylvia had connected us to if we needed to reach out to her. |
3:04.4 | We let it be known that if anyone had experiences which left them with the feeling there was |
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