Our Choices - Table Of Contents

Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
Episode 7
Episode 8
Episode 9
Episode 10
Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13
Episode 14

Our Choices - Episode 1

I turn on my phone to check the time again. One hour to go, approximately. Still no reception. The headlights of the rusty jeep eat through the impenetrable night, illuminating a small stretch of the empty road ahead of me. I have been driving on this route for hours now, the same unchanging dark forest to the left and right. Since I have left the last gas station, closed and without gas as the other ones before, I have turned off the heating and the music player to safe fuel. I do not remember when the radio has worked last, it has probably been broken since I bought the jeep. Silence fills the car now, only the rumbling of the old engine audible.

Our Choices - Episode 2

Lucy sidles past me, takes a sniff at one of the wheels of the wheelchair, ignoring the man completely before continuing into the room and settling in front of the fireplace.

Our Choices - Episode 3

We stare at each other, trying to figure out if we can trust the other person, only a few hours after meeting for the first time. I do not move an inch as I study Ezra’s grim features. His eyebrows are furrowed and his dark eyes glint threateningly. He is serious with the boy and in that moment I realize that although every fiber in my body is screaming at me to get away from here as fast as possible, now that I know about the kid I cannot just leave without at least trying to help. I would like to but I cannot.

Our Choices - Episode 4

My hand hovers over the fingers curled around the weapon. The skin is gray and papery.

Our Choices - Episode 5

The ladder is still lying outside the gate where I have left it and the street is empty as Ezra and I approach the house across from the gas station, me carrying the ladder again.

Our Choices - Episode 6

I do not speak as we hurry to the other side of the street. I try to find signs of an injury or, god forbid, of a bite, but, physically, Ezra seems unscratched. His strong arms pump the wheels next to me and he does not say anything either, does not even look at me as I walk along by his side.

Our Choices - Episode 7

“Benjamin and I are coming with you.”

Our Choices - Episode 8

“When you have started the motor, there will be a display for the tanker’s load. Maybe we are really lucky indeed. Anyway, just moving it out of the way will be good,” Ezra says.

Our Choices - Episode 9

I know it is probably not my place but Benjamin has a right to know. I inhale slowly.

Our Choices - Episode 10

“Don’t let him in.”

Our Choices - Episode 11

“I won’t give her to you. I just cannot.”

Our Choices - Epsiode 12

I almost fly up the steps to the main entrance, jump over the spot where blood has soaked the wooden floor in the entrance hall and run up the stairs behind it. Skidding around the corner, I dash down the hallway, the gun gripped tightly in my hands and the nightdress fluttering around my ankles.

Our Choices - Episode 13

We burn Ann in the flames. On one side we want to make sure she will not turn, on the other Ezra says she always wanted to have her body incinerated.

Our Choices - Episode 14

“Can we stop?”

“Again?” Ezra sighs but he smiles into the rearview mirror. “You drink too much of that juice!”