Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel

Author:Lia Habel [Habel, Lia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-345-52333-4
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-10-18T05:00:00+00:00

Oh, how I longed for prison.

Upon my arrest I thought I’d be taken to New London’s prison, known as Drike’s Island. I had murdered a woman. Instead, they told me I would be held at a local police station until law enforcement officials could “sort things out.” I was in shock and could only nod weakly in response when one of the constables explained it to me.

They’d taken me to the West Herbert Avenue station house. It was a claustrophobic brick building that, given current events, greatly resembled a panicked beehive. Between the constables rushing about and the people coming in to petition for missing loved ones and beg for information, the screens mounted in the waiting area and behind the front desk were inaudible. Their constant flashing only compounded the overall aura of alarm.

The majority of the women in the dank communal cell into which I’d been placed were drunks and loiterers, repeat offenders who either slept their stupor through or curled up and waited to be released. To them it was all routine. I’d not spoken to them. I wanted nothing to do with them. A few of the women were like me—individuals caught up in the rioting. They’d been eager to talk about their stories. I hadn’t been eager to listen. I didn’t want to be part of a world where things like this could happen—I didn’t want to be reminded that I was. I didn’t want to have to think about people fighting for their lives out there on the streets, or how fast the illness might be spreading.

I was terrified of the infected, though no more terrified of them than I was of myself.

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