Don't Tell Alice Part 1, Chapter 3: There Are Two Americas

Alice Isn't Dead

Night Vale Presents

Fiction, Drama

4.6 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:00.0	I headed home for a few weeks. I refused to disappear completely. As far as Alice knows, these will be occasional work trips. Don't tell Alice, okay, but don't abandon Alice either.
0:20.0	She didn't abandon Alice either.
0:27.2	She didn't have any questions, has no interest in thinking about the road ever again,
0:29.0	and who can blame her?
0:35.1	She was a little surprised by the RV, but I told her the car had finally broken down after barely hanging on for so long, and I was able to
0:38.9	trade it in for this, which would save on hotel costs. More or less the truth. She kissed me,
0:46.4	told me that the way my brain works will be studied by science, and then we went on with our
0:52.0	days until I had to leave again.
0:59.0	I watched her disappear in my mirror, waving goodbye.
1:04.0	These times when I'm away from her feel like dreams, adrift until I can feel her skin on mine again.
1:08.0	But if I'm not careful,
1:10.0	they are dreams I will not wake from The
1:30.3	The Alice isn't dead. Don't Tell Alice by Joseph Fink, performed by Jessicaaseka Nicole, Music and Sound Design by Dysperition.
2:04.9	Part 1, Chapter 3. There are Two Americas.
2:12.9	It's late. I have the RV pulled into a little grassy abandoned lot off a highway.
2:22.3	I've been avoiding more official parking spots, with hookups and security.
2:28.3	Partly because I just don't have a ton of money to spend on what are supposed to be work trips earning me money,
2:40.1	and also, because the part of myself that got me this far doesn't want to be seen.
2:44.3	I'd rather slip through this country, undetected.
2:55.6	I cover the windows so that the light doesn't give me away. The RV?
2:57.6	I've taken to calling her Danton,
2:59.6	because I'm lonely out here
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