![]() ![]() ![]() There is a lot of it, but then again, that’s also not uncommon to this place. The splashes could be old dirt, but dirt doesn’t usually have a spray pattern. There are dried brown smudges splashed all over the vehicle’s interior. ![]() The bus has some broken windows, four flat tires, and a giant gash in the side where something clawed through the metal to get at the kids inside. ![]() I have no way of knowing if that happened before or after the child died, but I suspect it was the former. It is still in relatively good shape-the backpack, rather than the skeleton-but both shoulder straps have been slashed, rendering it useless and impractical for my purposes. I found it attached to a child’s skeleton in the back of the bus. I don’t recognize any of the cartoon characters, but there are a lot of things in this place that I don’t recognize, because they’re not originally from this world. The backpack is one of those vinyl and canvas kinds you can buy at Wal-Mart, emblazoned with cartoon characters on the back. The notebook paper is wrinkled and curled, and many of the pages are water stained or smudged with dirt. All three-the notebook, the backpack, and the school bus-have seen better days. MY NAME IS AARON PACE, and I’m writing this by hand in a spiral-bound, college-ruled notebook that I found in a student’s backpack inside of an abandoned school bus. ![]()
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