text } Images May Disturb You: the blog of Georgia Mason, entry #1

[choosetruth]

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.

Comments

the roughest ;o;

[shorthair]

I haven't been around for one yet, but there have to be. Any way we can prepare people in advance? I try to gather information on other world's types of zombies and dangerous whatevers, but maybe there's a way to put it all together in one place and tips on how to survive and then shove it down people's throats.

[choosetruth]

I was planning on writing a comparative article on the different types of zombies. Sounds like you're a good person to help with that.

[shorthair]

That's a good idea. [there's a brief moment of stumbling like she doesn't know anything about writing or articles, because she doesn't. she hasn't picked up a pencil in a long time, but she's willing to learn, and if she can kill zombies, sew her arm shut, read people and learn how to use that to her advantage, she can do this too.

she can do more than survive.]

Sign me up.

[choosetruth]

[Georgia smiles. The thing about the news is, once you get a taste for it you can't stop. It's not an easy life, but it does have its own rewards. And she suspects this girl might have what it takes.]

Welcome aboard, kid. What name goes on the byline?

[shorthair]

[Clementine doesn't know what she's signed up for here, but she already likes it. She'll have to talk to Iris about it. She smiles back at Georgia, grateful for the offer, grateful that she takes her seriously enough to do so. It's good to have direction beyond survival. She's not like most kids. Hell, she's not like most people, sitting idle isn't something she can do, and there aren't any zombies to fight or people to outwit. She's felt lost but not anymore.]

Thanks. [It's meant to express all she's grateful for beyond just signing her up.] My name's Clementine.

[choosetruth]

Well, Clementine. Hope you're ready to work your ass off.

[shorthair]

I'm ready. I haven't been in school in years, but I want to learn and you know what you're talking about, and I'll do what it takes. I know how to survive. [It might be one of the only things she knows, but she knows that.] It's putting it to words I've never done before.

[choosetruth]

[Her mouth tips up, ever so slightly. About the closest she gets to showing actual emotion most of the time.]

Good.