Story Excerpt Sunday: From Walking Contradiction and Other Futures by Nancy Jane Moore

from the story

Or We Will All Hang Separately

in the collection Walking Contradiction and Other Futures

by Nancy Jane Moore

Marty Shendo knew both the truck and the roads best, so she drove. Ooljee Yzaguirre rode shotgun – literally: She kept a rifle in her lap. Tomas Perez sat in the back, his gun also in easy reach. Within most communities – or at least the ones Ooljee knew – no one went armed. Traveling between them, everyone did.

The dust blowing in the open windows made it difficult to talk....