I break through to the
light.
Nora is still in my arms.
Kay is waiting for me,
Doug at her side.
I don’t see Lance.
When I ask, they shake
their heads.
In the quiet of a world
gone dead I swear I can hear something, a muted, muffled scream.
It’s coming from the
tunnel.
I don’t turn. No one else
looks back, even though I know they hear it.
We keep moving forward,
down the highway, into the shell that was once the west side.
I don’t tell them about
the creature I had encountered, or what it said.
I don’t know why I don’t
tell them. I just… don’t.
That moment, and those
words seem like something that was only meant for me.
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