001 ➳ text; d.dixon

[dirtyredneck]

[He's been here a little bit. Hasn't engaged much. Figured he was having one hell of a fever dream after getting bit. Course, he couldn't remember getting bit, but what else could it have been? Only it hadn't gone away and the food he'd been eating seemed real enough and the people he'd been ignoring acted offended enough to be real, too.

So... maybe it was real. Weirder shit had happened.

And if it was, it might do him some good to actually start figuring his own shit out. Including how to actually use this thing.]

I ain't never used one of these
smart phones I think they're called
before. They had them before but I never
anyway I only ever had a flip phone
one I could text on.
How's this thing work?

Comments

[dirtyredneck]

My part of Georgia was pretty quiet. Before. Now, everywhere's quiet 'til it gets loud.

[toolatetochangethename]

Loud. Like, what? Crazy kids and their moonshine parties?

[Yeah, that's pretty much is understanding of Georgia. Peaches and moonshine?]

[dirtyredneck]

The dead, mostly.

[toolatetochangethename]

[That sort of wow that's really not funny laugh.]

Hahahah yeah, famous redneck humor. Hilarious. I get it.

[dirtyredneck]

Weren't joking.

[toolatetochangethename]

Look. I don't know if this hasn't made it through the Georgia public school system or anything, but...


the dead don't make noise. Generally.

[dirtyredneck]

Maybe not in your world. But in mine, they sure as fuck do.

[toolatetochangethename]

...you do live in the US, right? I mean, like, America? The one with all that stuff in New York, and everything?

[dirtyredneck]

What's left of it, yeah.

[toolatetochangethename]

Yeah, well, I mean, they're rebuilding and all.

[Whew. Yeah, they're definitely from the same place. For a moment there....]

And then there was that whole mess in Europe, am I right?

[dirtyredneck]

Don't know what you're talking about.

[toolatetochangethename]

Europe? I mean, you've heard of Europe, right? Sokovia? That whole mess with the city falling and stuff?

[Seriously. Maybe they don't teach geography in Georgia or something.]

[dirtyredneck]

You just being willfully ignorant or something here? I ain't from wherever you're from. Two years ago the dead started walking and the World That Was ended. A good 80 or 90 percent of human life was wiped off the face of the earth in a matter of weeks. Asshole at the CDC called it our 'extinction event'. Whatever shit you been through, it ain't been going on in my world.