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After Death

Horor

People fear death for many reasons. For some, the fear of what comes after. The fear of being forgotten. A threat to the meaningfulness of life. Being forced to stop life projects. This was what the world feared before. Now, what we fear is what we...

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Chapter 4 (What do we want to build for our future?)

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Chapter 4: What do we want to build for our future?

Rudolph Alinsky

Estimated, February 2024

About 21 months after outbreak

California

Season 3

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"What's the matter, Rudolph?" Steve asked me. We were all taking a break from walking for the day. We were held up in some sort of hotel in the middle of Los Angeles. So many of the dead were flooding the streets so we stuck to the back alleyways. We were supposed to be scavenging the place for food and supplies but I chose not to help.

"Just thinking about Edin and Ashton," I responded as I spun, effortlessly, in a swivel chair behind the check-in desk.

"You knew them even before all of this, I get it. That's an unbreakable bond. I knew a few people like that too. Joshua, DJ, Eli, Abby, they were friends of mine before everything and I know how you probably feel guilty. I felt guilty when they all died but that feeling passes because eventually, you realize that it's not your fault." He pulled me off of the chair and into a hug. It felt nice to hear something like that. But I still felt guilty. They were my friends, Edin saved my life, I was Ashton's life and I couldn't save theirs.

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Ethan Warren

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We hadn't found a new community yet. No one else seemed to be as stupid as us to willingly spend their time in the city with hardly any ammunition and broken weapons. It was coming down to us starting to think about building our own home purely out of despair. I didn't want to do that, it felt like it could have too much room for error. The supplies to build the walls would be too much work to find and then we would have to think of ways to keep it from falling, not the walls, but rather, what's inside the walls.

I knew that Leah would rather us build something new and I wanted to agree with her, I really did, but doing something like that takes time. Time wasn't something we knew we had.

I wanted to believe that if we did actually find a community out here that I'd be able to trust it but I knew I wouldn't be able to. After everything that's happened I knew I wouldn't be able to spend one night there without being completely paranoid.