Nicki Salcedo

The Zero Mile Post marked the meeting of two railway lines and possibly the beginning of the city of Atlanta. Zero Mile is a series of fictionalized stories based on real life in Atlanta, Georgia.

By Nicki Salcedo

Let me help you see. It might be scary, because it’s true. You have to get out of your eyes and into mine.

It starts at the movies. The screen goes dark. They are about to tell us a story. A man appears on the screen. He is black. He will be the first to die.

Someone has to be disposable. It might as well be us. It has been decided.

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