I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.

Gabriel's voice can reach me anywhere. Even in a hurricane.

Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.

Even the human race can't claim to be natural anymore. We are fake, dying things. How fitting that I would end up in this sham of a marriage.

Home?' I say. It's a word that can mean anywhere and nowhere.

My sisters were in that van.

I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else--all the awful stages picking up like a chorus that has to be sung.