The Bridge (2012)
“You forget, sitting back home behind the high walls and the locked bridges – you forget that Southside is nearly half of a whole city, and the dark half at that. We gripped hands and I glanced at Fyffe. She looked filthy and fierce, every bit the hardened scavenger she wasn’t.
We stepped off the bridge onto what must have been a major trucking route once. Maybe it used to be busy with warehouses and truckstop cafes and markets and storage halls. None of that was left. Now a packed dirt road str...etched ahead of us, lined with a jumble of low shacks crammed together, rigged from fragments of the original Southside. They’d used chunks of concrete for foundations and sheets of iron for walls and roofs; planks of wood leaned over doorways, and ramshackle brick chimneys leaked smoke.
For all that it looked like a dump, though, it was humming. Different from the stony silence of the city after dark. This place was alive and peopled: dogs barked and kids yelled and charged about, and people criss-crossed the road ahead of us, talking, calling to each other, laughing, and arguing.MoreLess
We stepped off the bridge onto what must have been a major trucking route once. Maybe it used to be busy with warehouses and truckstop cafes and markets and storage halls. None of that was left. Now a packed dirt road str...etched ahead of us, lined with a jumble of low shacks crammed together, rigged from fragments of the original Southside. They’d used chunks of concrete for foundations and sheets of iron for walls and roofs; planks of wood leaned over doorways, and ramshackle brick chimneys leaked smoke.
For all that it looked like a dump, though, it was humming. Different from the stony silence of the city after dark. This place was alive and peopled: dogs barked and kids yelled and charged about, and people criss-crossed the road ahead of us, talking, calling to each other, laughing, and arguing.MoreLess
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