6 Works in Canon Divergence - Post-The Walk
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Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
08 Oct 2025
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Ray had sworn he'd been a dead man. His ticket had gotten punched. Three warnings to forty-seven, and he was more than sure that he'd die. He was ready to give it all up for Pete. He trusted him with his idea in taking out the Major. And when Pete was ready to give his own life up to make sure Ray's idea happened, he knew he had to do the same.
He falls unconscious due to his gun shot wounds, believing that he has succumbed to his injuries. Despite that, Ray finds himself waking in an unfamiliar room and a hazy memory of what had happened once the Walk had ended. The only thing he's sure of? He loves Pete - that wouldn't change. But there was no reason he should be alive, not if Pete was the winner.
Not until he finds out that Pete's one wish was his life.
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In May of 1978, Raymond Davis Garraty wins The Long Walk. Twenty-four years later, a new group of boys are out to do the same.
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"The winner of this year's Long Walk had become something of an urban legend. No one had seen or spoken to him since the Walk ended. Rumors began to spread, theories were concocted, and everyone seemed to know something no one else did. He was a tall tale, growing more elaborate and unbelievable with every retelling."
Ray Garraty has won The Long Walk, but we all know no one really wins.
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"Garraty had no one to talk to. No one to understand. No one who had lived their life on that road and who had heard the gunshots and seen their friends shot down like rabid dogs."
Garraty after the walk.
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"Knowing that McVries was alive, Baker felt more grounded. With the three of them together, they had a chance of getting out and having a normal life. They could leave this strange underground bunker and go find a cabin in the woods somewhere. Things could never go back to normal, but they could make a new normal."
Baker, Garraty, and McVries escape the Long Walk.
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- Part 4 of Long Walk Week 2020
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The idea, once so intoxicating, was now nauseating. It’s not worth it, he thought, and was shocked by himself. Ninety-nine lives for some prosthetic feet. McVries, Baker, Olson, for some fucking prosthetic feet.