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Alice Isn't Dead

Part 3, Chapter 9: Praxis

Alice Isn't Dead

Night Vale Presents

Thriller, Fiction, Nightvale, Horror, Josephfink, Welcometonightvale, Drama, Jasikanicole, Disparition, Aliceisntdead

4.65.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It didn’t feel like fear. It felt like movement.

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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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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.

0:18.2

Sylvia was on the ground, trembling, and I understood. She did too. I took her hand.

0:27.7

Guess that was my life, she said. It's not like that. I said back, creedling her head.

0:39.2

Oh, it is. And it wasn't too long of a laugh. But at least I get to live it forever now.

0:49.0

Her trembling increased. It wasn't like shivering or the spasm of muscles. It was like all of her

1:00.0

atoms were vibrating with more and more intensity. She became blurry. When a person believes in an idea,

1:12.3

or an ideal, or a few of the world, it can change them. It can shape them completely.

1:23.1

The blurriness subsided, and there was a person exactly Sylvia's size in a hoodie.

1:31.6

Looking in the hood, I could still see Sylvia's space looking back.

1:35.6

I want you to know that I chose this. She said, I could have gone another way, but I wanted this.

1:50.8

Then her face was gone. And there was only the empty black of the Oracle.

1:57.9

It was always people. This over people and the Oracle's were people. And we were all just people

2:08.4

struggling for an idea of what being a person should be like. If people could do all this,

2:16.0

then we could undo it. It was time.

2:57.1

Alice isn't dead by Joseph Fink, performed by Jessica Nicole and Erica Livingston, produced by

3:10.2

desperation. Part 3, Chapter 9, Praxis. This field was supposed to be a housing tract.

3:17.6

Backed when houses went up faster than bad loans could be issued for them. Then it all collapsed

3:22.8

and so did the company building the houses and the company that owned the land. And it all got

3:26.8

tied up in so much legal and financial wrangling that this stretch of dirt and concrete with a fallen

3:32.4

down chain link fence around it will stand vacant for another hundred years. It was miles from

3:39.2

the nearest town, but the contractor had started by building a road to it, so it wasn't any problem for

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