On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis

Author:Corinne Duyvis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2016-02-02T16:00:00+00:00

The night is derailed when we find a family that’s been sheltering in their apartment—or the remains thereof—and we give them a ride out of the drowned mess that is Amsterdam. They ask to be dropped off on the A1 highway leading east, which is raised a couple of meters above sea level.

It won’t get them far. The viaducts will be collapsed. Even here, the highway is hard to navigate, with fallen sound barriers blocking the path, and craters and cracks in the asphalt.

But as the three of them set off on their walk eastward, I still wish I could join them.

• • •

We pick up searching where we left off, and somehow, I find myself back at my apartment building, looking up at the darkness where my balcony should be.

She’s not inside.

I ride the scooter into the open portico and climb the wreckage of the stairs anyway. I wander my apartment, salvage surviving items from the bathroom and kitchen, let my gloved fingers brush the moldering couch.

She’s not inside.

I knew that, so I don’t understand why confirming it hurts like this.

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