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Excerpts From 10 Pandemic Novels, Imagined
A troll of absolutely no one, except possibly myself
3 min readMar 12, 2021
- “What?” Alex felt like someone had stuffed her head with gauze. “What?”
- “What?” Alex typed. She couldn’t tell if she felt like her head was stuffed with gauze or that was just “the narrative” these days. “Sorry I feel like my head is stuffed with gauze, lol,” she typed, adding the lol, making sure no one would think that she was one of those people who actually thought her head was stuffed with gauze, wanting to plausibly be instead one of those people who knew people said that all the time and also thought that it was sort of a joke, because she didn’t know if the person she was writing, even though it was her close friend, Kira, believed in pandemic brain or not.
- It was a beautiful day in early March 2020 and Michelle realized for the first time since giving birth that she was actually really excited about being a mom.
- Marina had told Lila that Bettina and Tom had left New York on March 9th, easing out in the dead of night in their Subaru, taking the BQE until it merged into the Grand Central Parkway, then using the right two lanes to take exit 9E for Whitestone Expwy/NY-25A E/Northern Blvd toward I-678/Airport LGA, then using the left lane to follow signs for I-678/Van Wyck Expy/Whitestone Bridge/Kennedy…
