Well, the sun is coming through the haze a little after so many daysa
that dark and dirty rain. Stephen says the plants that never lost
their leaves are already budding out again and it’s not even
February. It aint even been cold enough to freeze the terlet we dug
outside the
SUV.
You know I lost
another baby, and the doctor at the free clinic says it’s
impossible to tell what might be the cause, but not to feel too bad
cause it’s happening a lot to all of us. Maybe it was for the best
since one of them 15 Chinese families that moved in on our block had
a son born so deformed the officials come and took him off somewhere
fer study or somethin. But folks here say the asians was already sick
from stuff back in their homeland.
I got selected for a
day job down to GlobalPlex helping to mine plastic at the old dump
for the first time in a month last week, spent 12 hours in an old
HazMat suit that was really hot even with all the holes. They told us
we didn’t need our air bottles cause the wind was blowin just a
bit. They even said I should come back when my cough subsides again.
They make their daily picks at 5 AM, kinda like you used to say they
did with them illegales. We get paid every night and their store
stays open for an hour longer. Bought us some chips and sodas.
After 5 years spent
freedom-fighting all over the middle east our Jimmy come home 2
months ago with a really nice printout of his discharge. He says he’s
still really jet-lagged and has to sleep through the days and go out
at night. He don’t complain much about the blurry vision and his
new hand works pretty well, too. The cops have been real understandin
about the fightin, drugs and the gunshots cause theyre all vets
theyselves.
We been burning our
trash out in the yard for pert near 2 years now and the kids love to
run around in the smoke. But, they don’t like carryin water from
the creek cause it smells so bad and they’re always slippin around
in the mud. We mostly boil it before we drink it but sometimes its
just too nasty out to split any firewood and we all get them terrible
shits.
Every one of us still
misses Daddy every day, specially when we get our rations, cause the
army guys are always thinking that he’s off hiding somewheres when
we’re standin in the lines. All the kids are doing in school is
bible memorization, when they make it there at all.
The lecktric come on
for maybe an hour last week and shocked hell right out of us when a
radio all sudden kicked on. Same guy was still rattlin on about
staying calm and indoors as much as possible and such. Not even the
first fool commercial and boy that has taken some real gettin used
to. They said the war was going well and our like ecunomic
fundymentals are still real strong.
You know you’d think
we was living some kinda life of leisure what with not having to cook
or go to work and stuff like that. But really them MREs they been
passing out for months got tiresome long ago and GlobalPlex just
don’t have enough work for half of us on any given day...But dogs
are disappearin and theys been this smell of barbecues.
Welp, gotta sign off
soon here and get Sussy ta the clinic to see about the crusty stuff
that’s closing up her eye. We’ll be gone a couple days what with
the walking and the lines. I’ll save this letter for you in case
things might ever get back to sorta normal and we can get tagether. I
mean I don’t really know where you are and anyways, the post office
has been closed for months now. Hope that Daddy got buried proper.
Lots of Love and XXXs,
Emmie.
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