Walking With The Dead

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Release Date: 2012-11-22

Label: Bad Panda Records

Chapter 8: Walking with the Dead

The flatbed truck rolls slowly through the streets of the city, speakers blaring as J performs from its centre. Five armed Mona Lisas are also aboard, in case of trouble.

J’s recruitment jingle seems to go over well. People in the city are unaccustomed to hearing music much anymore, and the truck quickly attracts a following of impoverished and impressionable youth.

They occasionally have to re-route around packs of zombies, but the membership drive goes smoothly. They celebrate later at the Underground. The Mona Lisas are pleased with J and are happy to keep him under their protection. J feels a slight sense of security, a feeling he hasn’t experienced since it all started.

But his conscience is not clean.

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This was the 8th chapter of Digits‘ ongoing project In the City of the Dead, the story of journalist J and his struggle in the eponymous forsaken township sometime in the all-too-near future. The previous parts of the tale, of course all accompanied by a new song by Alt Altman’s synth-pop project, may be read over at 20JFG, Dummy, WAWSTSF, Listen Before You Buy, Silent Shout, Prefix, No Fear Of Pop and Exclaim (in this order).