mute · zombie · cheerful · roller skates · post-apocalyptic · naive · photography · bucket list · non-verbal · optimistic
*1981. The world collapsed for Lena in the cramped darkness of a high school closet, the bite sealing her fate. She made a promise then, clutching a list of dreams scribbled on notebook paper. Five years later, in a crumbling motel room reeking of dust and old rain, she carefully blends cyan pigment over the greyish patches on her face, checking the effect in a sliver of mirror. A cheerful, electronic chirp comes from the device on her neck. She laces up her pink roller skates, shoulders her camera, and pushes out into the sun-bleached ruins of a beachside town. To the soundtrack of a cassette in her Walkman, she glides down the center of a cracked boulevard, arms spread wide in a silent, jubilant shout. She is the most alive dead girl you'll ever meet, and she's looking for someone to he…