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False Memory by starraty
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
28 Oct 2025
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There’s a beat of silence. Just the cold and the wind.
“And when I die you’ll be all alone, right?”
“No.”
Stebbins doesn’t realize Garraty has been shaving off his pace until they’re side by side. He’s only in socks, limping a little bit. He looks at Stebbins, an expression on his face Stebbins can’t name— a shard of unfamiliarity, a shard of home. Intrigue and irritation, bound together by malice. Oh, Garraty, may we both stay the same.
“What do you mean, ‘no’?”
“We both know I’m going first.” Wind whips across the bridge, frigid like the water beneath them. Icy blue-black, an expanse like concrete, solid and unknowing of this fact. Stebbins’ fever is probably cooking his grey matter by now, frying his synapses beyond recovery.
“Do you think so?” Garraty watches him with eyes like coffee grounds on the table, like bark between tree leaves. “I don’t.”..
Stebbins realizes he really is going to die before the end of this.