Those Who Lived: Fallen World Stories (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
I hadn’t felt much the first time either, but then it’d been because I was so exhausted and overwhelmed by the wrenching of dread and hope inside me that I’d gone numb. This time, I looked across the bow of the motorboat I was steering, toward the pale strip of beach and the rocky shoreline that rose to the northern cliffs, and it was just another place. A place I knew, but not one I was especially attached to. One of Mom’s favorite sayings was, “A place is its people,” and maybe that was why. There wasn’t any uncertainty left to stir up dread or hope. I knew she and Dad were dead, and most of our neighbors, most of the kids I’d grown up with and the teachers I’d had class with, too. I knew Kaelyn and Tessa were alive. And there wasn’t anyone on the island now. Dr. Pierce—Nell, I had to remind myself to call her now—had been talking about moving everyone to the mainland after those stir-crazy soldiers had dropped their missiles, and not long after Kaelyn and the rest of us had left with the vaccine, she and the other volunteers who’d stepped up had followed through on that.
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