CELLAR DWELLERS

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People will judge what I did here, whether I’m still around or not, so I’m saying my piece on paper while I still have the chance.

I was here from the start, with Sunny and Daystar. I know everyone here intimately, even that newcomer kid. You have to understand, this is my family. Even now I can’t give up on them. If your brother or daughter caught rabies or smallpox, would you turn your back on them?

I never liked having an Airforce base for a neighbor, but most days I forgot they were even there. Now helicopters have landed and troops are going door to door. I only dodged them because I saw Daystar’s note in the window. The one meant for Keith. I knew the Military-Industrial Complex wasn’t coming to rescue us, so I checked Keith’s room. I found Astrid, Riverstone and Mariposa feasting on him like lionesses. I got them to chase me into my basement, ran out and locked them in. The walls are thick. I don’t think the soldiers can hear them.

They’re burning bodies out there. Once they leave I’ll drive into town and let the world know. And then the Pentagon will have to give us the cure.

Either that, or some idiot soldier will open my cellar and people will say I set up an ambush. Look, I didn’t start this. I just can’t let what’s left of my family end up in a bonfire of corpses.

Harmony