Smithereens Press Chapbooks 'Zero at the Bone' by David Wheatley | Page 53

SCENE NINETEEN
MCALLISTER
It’s happening, then.
MCDONALD
What is?
MCALLISTER
There’s been a breach.
We’re cut –
MCDONALD
They’re cut off.
MCALLISTER
We’re out of reach.
The road was buried in sand-drifts. The stuff
was in my eyes, my mouth. But more than that –
MCDONALD
What?
MCALLISTER
I tripped over something, behind the dune.
MCDONALD
Oh?
MCALLISTER
A special delivery, I would have thought,
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