Aug. 21, 2024

The Last Vacation - A Harrowing Cruise Ship Nightmare!

The Last Vacation - A Harrowing Cruise Ship Nightmare!
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Rhonda's dream vacation turns into a nightmare as a mysterious infection spreads through the ship. Trapped on the high seas with chaos around every corner, will she and her family survive, or will the apocalypse claim them?

The Last Vacation by Mike Ashkewe

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On vacation with your family, having some fun in the

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sun on the ocean, you realize things are not quite

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as sunny as they first seen. And now as all

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chaos breaks loose, you begin to wonder will you survive

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the dead? On board, what's that you want to be

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right after these quick messages. The Last Vacation by Mike

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Ashkewey February first, twoenty twenty four. I wanted a car

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for my eighteenth birthday. Instead, I got a really expensive

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journal and pen. My mom said she wanted me to

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remember the best days of my life and told me

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to write them down so I wouldn't lose them on

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the web or to a server outage. So this is

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my attempt at doing just that. Maybe she'll be right,

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maybe she won't, but it'll kill some time on our

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family vacation I didn't ask for. Most kids would be

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thrilled for fun in the sun, but I burn easily.

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I don't wear revealing outfits outside of a hoodie, and

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I don't like people much. My stepmom, Jill told me

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that she met my dad Peter on an ancient website

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called live journal, back when dinosaurs roamed the internet. Both

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really value the written word, but didn't always agree with

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the format or forum. So for the next twelve days,

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I'm stuck here with my stupid step brother Roger, and

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my parents in a tropical paradise, trapped on a boat

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filled with escapees from the Old Folks Home and boomers

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looking for new places to have sex. Gross. Look, I'm

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not stupid. I know I should be thrilled for this

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family vacation, but I can read between the lines. Jill

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and Peter are going to get a divorce. Honestly, I'd

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be surprised if they made it to the summer. Roger

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and I both heard the fighting over Christmas time, holly

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jolly yelling, screaming and sobbing, followed by lots of nights

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watching Dad sleep on the couch and crying himself to sleep.

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I hadn't heard him cry like that since my mom died,

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my real mom. What happened between them? I don't know,

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and I don't really care. This is some desperate attempt

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to show that we're still fine, that we can still

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be a family. But I know when the clock is

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about to run out. It's not like Jill sucks either

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or my dad is perfect. Sometimes things just don't work out.

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Sometimes I'm handling it fine, I can deal, But Roger

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is taking it hard. Sure he's sixteen, in pretty tough

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in a lot of ways, but he's hurting He'll be okay, though,

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even if me and Dad leave, He'll get a football

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scholarship and be into girls, beer bongs and concussions. He'll

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be okay. I'm off to college in the fall, and

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then I can finally leave Cincinnati in the rear view

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and start my life any place that isn't Ohio. Ronda

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Canavan has bigger ambitions than managing a Starbucks until I'm

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dead or working at Walmart till I'm wearing depens. Maybe

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these are the best days of my life. Right. Sometimes

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I even believe that I'm so tired from driving down

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I seventy five to Fort Lauderdale, listening to shitty political

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radio and Taylor Swift SAPs my will to live. My

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parents told me radio wasn't only shit, but I have

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a hard time believing that. Time to settle into the

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hotel room for the night. Tomorrow we board the cruise

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ship and start our whirlwind tour of places I never

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had any intention of visiting anyway. Of course, the fucking

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Wi Fi doesn't even work in this place. February second,

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twenty twenty four, spent most of the day boarding this

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giant cruise ship, the vanguard of the seas. It's like

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being on an aircraft carrier. The ship is absolutely huge

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and just full of people and stuff to do. There

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are tons of options for food, entertainment, pools, and even

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casinos and amusement park. Shit saw so many types of

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different people, not just people collecting Social Security either, and

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quite a few kids close to Rogers in my age,

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a collection of America and likely the world, just all

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intermixing and expecting to have a good time and spend

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a buttload of cash while doing it. I don't want

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to imagine how much my parents paid for this trip,

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but I hope it didn't come out of my college fund.

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Makes me glad. I've saved up a bunch of money

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from working at Starbucks and doing other kids homework at school.

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Girls got a pay her bills, and I have expensive hobbies,

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nerdy hobbies. Okay, one expensive hobby, but it's how I

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met my friends Trey Owen and Jenna. We all played

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Dungeons and Dragons together Wednesday nights after work. I float

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the bill for the books, maps and the little game Chochkeys.

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Roger always comes in and starts quoting Game of Thrones

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at us, though we all had a laugh when I

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kicked him in the balls last year and called myself Kalisa,

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breaker of balls. It's okay. He got back at me

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when he snapped my bra so hard it bent a

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clasp and left a nasty welt on my back for

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a week. After we all had family dinner, I started

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wandering around the upper deck of the ship. Jill and

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Dad went off to do some couples stuff, I think,

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and Roger is off doing Roger things, my guess, is

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likely trying cheesy pickup lines on girls, trying and failing badly.

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It's pretty out here, and sure as hell beats the

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urban decay of America's least memorable city. I don't hate it,

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but it's so painfully boring and dull. I just don't

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want to end up like my parents, working jobs they hate,

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in a city they hate, and in a marriage that

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is falling apart. I planted myself in a deck chair

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and just watched the stars tonight. Typically you get light

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pollution from the city and you don't see a lot

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except the moon. If I had a boyfriend, or hell

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even a girlfriend, this would be romantic. But nope, just me,

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my oversized hoodie, a little book, and my pen. It's

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weird though. Tonight the sky is all sorts of odd colors,

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and I don't think it's the aurora or anything like that.

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I know the news before we left had mentioned something

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about some space stuff happening this week. I wasn't really listening,

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but it does look cool at least, swirling greens and purples,

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all sorts of different colors. But they feel wrong somehow.

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Some of the stuff that relies on cell signals and

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Wi Fi is being affected too. Can't maintain a stable connection,

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and so I can maybe see my social media for

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all of like five seconds. I suppose it's better that way.

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I'm supposed to be out here enjoying the ocean, the surf,

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and the skies. Whatever the nautical version of touching grass is,

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I don't need to be connected twenty four seven. And

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maybe I'll enjoy myself a little bit more if I

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forget there is a world beyond the ocean. Tomorrow will

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be good. Maybe tomorrow I'll go do some family stuff

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and try to actually have a good time. I mean,

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how often does one get whisked off to a tropical

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paradise free of charge? Twenty twenty four I actually had

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a pretty great day today. We all went down to

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the pool and managed some laughter and it didn't seem

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awkward or forced. I haven't seen my dad smile like

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that in a long time, probably when Jill surprised him

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on his birthday last year. She got him a sweet

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new laptop and drawing tablet for him to do his

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artwork on. Dad is an artist, or at least he

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thinks he is. He loves to draw and doodle, even

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occasionally manages to sell some art to local companies. Nothing profitable,

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but he loves it. Jill is the one who brings

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in the real money. She's an electrical engineer at the university.

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Roger and I went off and started poking around the ship. Basically,

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he wanted to see how big this floating palace actually is.

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We discovered all sorts of neat stuff, even found out

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they actually have a security force to deal with pirates.

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We saw a couple of the guys dealing with a

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few unruly guests in a corridor. It looked like a

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hell of a fight too. We didn't hear any shooting,

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but Jesus there was blood, gore and discarded drinks everywhere.

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Couldn't tell what happened, but it looked like a few

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old guys got into it with a bunch of dude bros.

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I think one of the old guys bit one of

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the dudes and tore a chunk out of them. It's nasty,

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but if I'd gotten that on video, I could have

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posted it on YouTube or TikTok for Internet cloud. The

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Renna cops told us to fuck off, so we did

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and headed back above deck and back into the sun again.

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We spent the rest of the day at the pool

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and in the restaurant. People were talking about the incident

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at dinner, and everyone was gossiping about it. I suppose

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in a weird way, this is like a self contained

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high school, and juicy gossip gets dished out along with

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the soup of the day. After everyone had dinner and

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went their separate ways for the night. I did the same.

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Roger found himself an arcade, and I think that's where

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he'll spend most of this trip. I don't know where

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my parents ended up, but if I had to guess,

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they weren't going to waste a good day and a

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room with no kids. I'd found a nice place at

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the back of the ship where it was kind of quiet,

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private and had a good vantage point of the ocean

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and the horizon. The sky was that same weird color

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again tonight. I also heard a lot of noise coming

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from far off too. It sounded like jets or something.

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I didn't think we were near any air bases or

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anything like that. Probably outspending the hard earned tax dollars

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to pad their budgets looking up at the wrong looking colors.

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I saw a lot of airplanes tonight. I'm even seeing

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what I think are lights from other boats nearby. It

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seems like the seas are crowded tonight, and privacy is

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going to be hard to come by. Of course, the

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Internet is complet lely down tonight too. The web page

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gives me some sort of an error, and I can't

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even get a signal for more than a few seconds.

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I thought I saw something on social media about something

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happening back on land, but before I could read past

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the headline, the page crashed. Something about a crisis. When

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isn't there one of those? Right Tomorrow, I'll try sun

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tanning for the first time in my entire life. No

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crisis here except maybe sunburn. February fourth, twenty twenty four

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this morning, I awoke to Dad shaking me awake and

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telling me to get dressed. The crew had asked the

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passengers to stand by for an important announcement and that

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information would be coming in from the mainland. We were

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told to stay calm and reassured that everything was okay. Clearly,

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something is fucked up when you hear that. We heard

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a knock at the cabin door and a tray of

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food was left for us. As we saw the crew

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moving from door to door and calmly leaving food and

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not saying a word to anyone who wasn't in a uniform,

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then it hit me the crew weren't just service people.

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They were all armed somehow. Some of the crew were

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those security guys we saw earlier, and some were others

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who seemingly conscripted into whatever the fuck this was. The captain,

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who identified themselves as Captain Paul Kennedy said there was

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an emergency situation developing on the mainland and we would

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be remaining at sea until ordered otherwise. The military had

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become involved and the Navy was ordering all vessels at

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sea to remain there until the situation had changed. Something

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was wrong. Then I heard it a gunshot. We all

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looked at each other and didn't know what to make

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of it. It couldn't be gunfire, could it. Then the screams,

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first one, then many too many. It went on for

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what seemed like forever. I'll never forget when it stopped either.

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Eleven fifty two am. Another voice came over the intercom,

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and it wasn't the captains this time. It was an

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older lady and she identified herself as the ship's doctor,

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Doctor Chang. She said there was a sickness on board

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and everyone would have to submit to examination by the

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medical staff and security. Any refusal would mean being locked

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up in the brig or removal from the ship by

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any means necessary. Why am I still writing? I guess

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it helps me to keep calm. I need to stay

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calm and clear headed. More scares to come weekly, spooky,

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We'll be right back. February fifth, twoenty twenty five. It's bad.

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I don't know what it is, but it's bad. The

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doctors came in this morning and examined everyone and told

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us to move our stuff to a different, more secure

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area of the ship. We were told to bring only

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the essentials and everything else would be provided for us.

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I grabbed this book, my pen and the hoodie Dad

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had gotten me when we went to Washington in ninth grade.

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Everyone else packed what they figured was important, but it

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all seemed like it was out of panic or by instinct.

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They herded us all into one of the big ballrooms

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and set it up like a field hospital with cots

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and blankets. All the amenities and fun stuff was stripped out,

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and it was as bare bones and spartan as you

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could get. I did notice one thing, though, There were

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remarkably few people over the age of sixty here with us.

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They're watching anyone who even sneezes like a hawk. Were

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also surrounded on all sides by people with guns and batons.

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We're not passengers anymore. We're being held here. We're prisoners.

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I overheard some people talking, I must be wrong. It

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sounded too crazy to be real. They were saying some

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kind of an incident had happened on the mainland and

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was causing people to go crazy and kill each other

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and eat each other like fucking zombies. There is no

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way this is happening. This is not real. This is

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real life, not Wednesday Night D and D and zombies

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don't goddamn exist. One person even started screaming about zombies,

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and the security guys beat on her with clubs and

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batons till she started crying and begged them to stop.

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She was dragged out of the room on a stretcher

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and I never saw her again. It has to be

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a biological weapon attack. Terrorists are like the Russians or

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the North Koreans, or bad drugs like bath salts or fentanyl.

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This isn't fucking happening to me. I'm supposed to be

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on vacation February seventh, twenty twenty four. I can't sleep,

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and I'm not sure anyone else is either. Everybody's on edge.

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Jill hasn't slept in days, and frankly, she really looks sick.

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I'm scared she'll get taken away by the ship's doctors

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or the security goons. No one is taking any chances

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at this point. Dad is trying to be a tough

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guy to help her, but it's not working. He's not

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a strong man. He's an artist. Dad cries at Lifetime movies.

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He just isn't equipped for this. Roger looks nervous and scared,

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like he has this panicked look in his eyes. I

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think he'll do something stupid for fuck's sake. Sit down

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and shut up, and please don't cause trouble. People are

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still talking and gossip is hot right now. Rumor is

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that if you die, you don't you come back. It

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doesn't even matter how you die, just that you come back.

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We've heard gunshots coming from below decks at all hours

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of the day and night since yesterday. One of the

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security guards left a handheld radio behind and I listened

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for as long as I could. I think I heard

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all I needed to hear. Though it's over. We've lost

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the engine room. The infection is spreading. We don't know

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how to stop it except for a bullet to the head.

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I don't want to die, not like that. February ninth,

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twenty twenty four. I finally saw it happen. One of

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the people beside me had a heart attack in the

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middle of the night. No one noticed until she tore

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the throat out of the person sleeping next to her.

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It all happened so fast, but it felt like time

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slowed down. All I could do was watch in horror.

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There was so much blood. The guards started shooting, but

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the person wouldn't die. It was so loud my ears

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were ringing. Everyone else was screaming and yelling, but they

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sounded far away. Finally, they shot the woman in the

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head and she went down, but the body still kept twitching.

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One of the guards leveled his weapon at the remaining passengers.

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He reeked of booze, and the look on his face

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was something I'll never forget. They enjoyed what they did.

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They enjoyed pulling that trigger. A trio of guards stepped

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forward in an aggressive manner towards the lot of us,

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and one of them spoke, don't think for a second

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that we will hesitate to do it again. You need

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us more than we need you. The smallest of the

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trio walked over to the person whose throat was ripped out,

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pulled out his pistol, and shot them in the head.

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To punctuate the threat, We're not taking any chances. Now

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clean this shit up. They threw the bodies overboard burial

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at sea. Some kid followed them and started wailing as

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the bodies hit the water. I think it was their

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mom and dad. This is hell. I'm in hell. February twelfth,

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twenty twenty four. Please tell me this is a nightmare,

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let me wake up. Security staff have started escorting female

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passengers to alternative accommodations. Last night we woke up to

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screaming again, but it wasn't another death. A man was

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shouting as his wife and daughter were being forcibly removed.

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One of the guards broke his nose with the butt

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of a shotgun, and the rest just laughed and shouted

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drunkenly for him to stay down if he knew what

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was good for him. Someone has to know that I existed.

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If this keeps going as badly as it has been,

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I need to leave a record of what happened. Someone

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has to know that Ronda Canavan existed, that I was

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a person, That I had a brother, parents and they

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existed too. I had the best dog ever, Bugsy. I existed.

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I had a life. Please, if you find this diary,

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know that I tried and I lived. I just want

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to go home. February fifteenth, twenty twenty four. We've all

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been moved again. This time we're being isolated to two

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decks and they've shut down the elevators. We're locked into

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cabins and being given the absolute bare minimum for survival

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and nothing else. There are a lot you were of

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us left. Now the doctors in medical staff come by

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constantly and aren't taking any chances. Now the rent to

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cops are also interrogating people about what skills they have

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and taking them to the higher decks for necessary work.

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Dad should be safe. Not much call for graphic design

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in the zombie apocalypse. But I'm not so sure about Jill.

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Jill is an engineer, and she'll want to help. She'll

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want to protect us and do the right thing. We

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haven't always seen eye to eye, but I know she's

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a good person at heart. I keep hearing strange mechanical

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noises coming from below decks. It doesn't sound good, and

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I can smell something burning, like oil and plastic. Hopefully

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they'll put her engineering skills to use. Maybe that means

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we stay alive or afloat or something. I don't want

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to think of the alternative, but I'm glad I'm still

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in my shapeless hoodie and sweats. February seventeenth, twenty twenty four.

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They killed Roger. They came to take Jill for engineering

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work duty. They weren't asking either. It was the middle

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of the night when they came. It happened so quickly,

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the door was kicked down and flashlights flooded the room.

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Dad and I froze, but Roger tried to stop them.

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Before he could even take a swing at the three guards,

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they shot him in the head. Two of the bastards

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even laughed as he crumpled to the floor. The woman

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who shot him didn't laugh, though. Jill was hauled away,

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screaming hysterically, covered in the contents of Roger's skull. That

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was the last time I saw Jill alive. The thing

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that will haunt me for the rest of my life

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was the terrified look in her eyes as they hauled

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her off her feet and into the corridor. We need

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to get off the boat, or we're gonna die next

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or worse. Dad hasn't said a word since they took Jill.

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He has a defeated look, like he's a thousand miles

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away and he's not coming back. February nineteenth, twenty twenty four.

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I am not going to die here. I am going

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to escape. I don't know how, but I have an idea.

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I've seen plenty of movies and read too many trashy novels.

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If they taught me anything, it's that maybe I can

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make a rope ladder and get on the upper deck

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of the ship. Maybe I can steal a lifeboat or something.

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We have tons of bed sheets and stuff that I

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can use. Somehow, I'll figure something out. I have to try.

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Dad still hasn't said a word. Jill hasn't come back,

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and I don't think she will either. I don't know

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what else to do, but I need to try and survive.

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Looking outside on the veranda and over the ocean, I

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can see lights on the horizon. It has to be

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other boats, right. There has to be other survivors besides us. Right,

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could be the navy or someone anyone. Any place is

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better than here. February twenty fourth, twenty twenty four. I've

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spent the last few days preparing my escape plan. It's

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taken a few tries and prototypes, but I think I'll

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be ready to go tomorrow or the day after. Relatively

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sure it'll hold my weight, or at least I hope

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it will. I've saved up a few days worth of

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food and water. I literally don't have a plan beyond

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getting to the top of the ship and seeing what

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happens after that. Doctors came in this morning and examined

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me and Dad. Thankfully, they found nothing except noting that

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Dad looks malnourished and should eat if he knows what's

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good for him. Dad hasn't eaten or said a word.

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He's gone. I'm sorry, Dad, you may have given up,

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but I can't. February twenty sixth, twenty twenty four, one

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of those lights turned out to be a US Coast

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Guard ship and they boarded us. So maybe this is

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my big break, but I have to wait till it's

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less busy. You can hear a lot of raised voices

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intense conversation coming from the deck, but no one has

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started shooting each other. That could change at any moment, though.

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Rumor is that the ship's stocks of booze are almost exhausted.

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I'm going to try and sneak aboard the Coastguard ship

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and see if I can get out of here that way.

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I slept beside my dad, gave him a big hug

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this morning, but he wouldn't even look at me. He

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did speak, though, and it broke my heart into pieces.

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I'm sorry, Rohnda, I'm sorry for everything. If your stepmom

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and I hadn't been fighting, we wouldn't have come out

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here to fix our marriage. I'm so sorry. He just

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looked at his shoes and didn't say anything else to me.

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I know it's not his fault. Roger knew that. I'll

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even bet that Jill Mom knew that it would get

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worked out. I don't blame him for any of this happening.

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I'm going to wait till dark, and then I'm going

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to use my rope ladder and try my best. Mom

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Dead Roger, I love you all. I kissed my dad

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on his forehead when he went to sleep, and for

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a brief second he smiled before a restless sleep took

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him back. I'm going to live for all of us.

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I have to at least try. March first, twenty twenty four,

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I made it. I successfully used my rope ladder and

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climbed to the deck and made my way to the

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top of the ship. There were dozens of guards and

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coastguard people milling about, but no one saw me or

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cared enough to stop me, a little, half starved teenage

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girl from escaping. I hid and waited and watched for

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hours until people let their guard down. I did get

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spotted by one of the crew, though she pointed her

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rifle at me. I thought I was dead and had

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failed after everything. She just looked at me with pity

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and said, kid, get the fuck out of here. I

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think she was the one who shot Roger. I couldn't

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be sure. Maybe this was her way of saying that

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she was sorry. I slid down a ladder connecting our

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two boats, and I hid as quickly as I could

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anywhere that would fit me. I had started to feel

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hungry and sick, so I had to make myself known

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after a few days. I'm thankful they didn't shoot me

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on site. I told them what happened to us on board.

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No one was surprised. They said it wasn't the first

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cruise ship they'd come across like ours, and some were

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even worse. The Navy and Coastguard were trying to help

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as many people as they could survive at sea, but

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it wasn't easy. The Coastguard told me that many cruise

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ships devolved into chaos within days of the incident occurring.

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Many were floating cities of the dead. Some were run

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by wannabee pirates or dictators as floating fortresses. What happened

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to the vanguard of the seas I asked They told

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me that it had been scuttled due to severe engine damage,

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and that it could have even been direct sabotage. A

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woman had sent out a distress call, and fortunately they

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were in range of the call to answer. Did Mom

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do that? Did she give us a fighting chance at rescue? Somehow?

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It wasn't all sunshine and rainbows, however, there weren't many

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survivors besides what was left of the crew and a

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handful of random passengers. Everyone had been transformed to a

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bigger Navy ship. They never did find my mom or dad.

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This will be my final entry in this journal. Mom

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and dad wanted me to remember the best days of

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my life, but this was far from that. Unfortunately, I'll

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always remember these days. At least I can take some

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comfort remembering that I was with my family when the

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apocalypse came. My name is Ronda Elizabeth Canavan, and this

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was my experience when the world ended. I existed. I

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had a life before this. I'll do my best to

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make a life after this. For Roger, for Mom, for Dad.

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What does my future look like. I don't know, but

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I tried, and for what it's worth, I'll continue to try. Well.

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My spookies I think that was a solid way to

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wrap up the summer scaries, and I hope you enjoyed

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going on that little cruise with me. I know everybody's

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been dying to get on the cruise, but seriously, thank

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you to Mike for sending in such a great story.

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And if you have a story you'd like to be

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my friends, it's time for me to get back to

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