After: Nineteen Stories Of Apocalypse And Dystopia - Plot & Excerpts
YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO I AM AND HOW I GOT HERE? Reality Girl is the name my mother gave me but Real’s what I’m called. I’m fourteen and until one day, a week or so back, my ambition was making it to fifteen. What I want to tell starts that day. Me and Dare—my girlfriend and partner—led our boys, Nice and Not, Hassid, and Rock, down to the river for this appointment I’d set up. It could have been any October afternoon: hot orange light and the sun hanging over the smashed towers on the Jersey Shore. Like always, rumors ran of everything from a new plague to war between the Northeast Command and the Liberty Land militia. But I could see planes coming in and taking off from Liberty Land Stronghold in Jersey like always. And along the waterfront little ferry boats took people on, unloaded freight. The world that day was the way I was used to: broken cement under bare feet, bad sunlight that’d take off your skin if you let it, the smell of rot and acid on the water.
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