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My name is Georgia Carolyn Mason. I'm a licensed journalist from After the End Times. Five years ago, on a website that is inaccessible from this location, I started my blog and wrote my mission statement: to always tell the truth no matter the cost. For the past several months I've been following Senator Peter Ryman's presidential campaign and reporting on his progress. For the past few minutes, I had been running for my life after someone blew up my trailer. It turns out that cost was a lot higher than I ever anticipated. And that was just zombies and a government conspiracy. What will the cost be for telling this new truth: that I seem to have woken up in a literal fairytale? I tested clean five minutes ago, and hallucinations have never been one of the symptoms of Kellis-Amberlee. I'm forced to conclude that this is, indeed happening and not a very strange dream. I would like nothing more than a way to send this information home so that our readers could know about this, but I've done my research. All sources indicate that is, for the time being, impossible. So, I suppose, I'll just have to start reporting here, and know that someday, should the opportunity arise, I'll be able to bring the news home. In the meantime, if anyone here is a doctor, or even better an epidemiologist or virologist, I have some questions.

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Well, that was inevitable. There were a lot of takes on zombies pre-Rising. George Romero's movies are surprisingly pretty spot on. He was the accidental savior of mankind.

that's the night of the living dead guy, right?

Yes. I'm named after him. Me and half the other people of my generation.

better than being named after a character in a trashy romance novel. i had a few friends in junior high who suffered from that particular fate.

Oh, I'm not complaining. Being named after the reason humanity didn't end up extinct isn't exactly uncool. But there are a lot of us.

What trashy romance novel name?

[George doesn't read many trashy romance novels, but she's still curious.]

i get that. there's a lot of people who have my first name, too.
a girl i used to know was named "emmaline" after her mom's favorite romance novel character.

Yikes.

What's your first name?

rebecca, but i prefer beckett

Fair enough. The Rebecca who works for me prefers Becks.

becks works, too
i'll answer to pretty much anything that's not rebecca

Beckett's fine. Is there a particular reason you don't like your full name?

my parents called me beckett, never rebecca
responding to rebecca just feels weird
like, i know that's my name but that's not ME

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