There are certain organic molecules about which I feel the same way—beautiful, but at the same time impossibly deadly. I totally understand this. Nicely written.

mortality rate? morbidity is not right. lol.

if the host lasted longer?.. freakishly evil..

Strands of bacteria look like pearl necklaces too. I totally get this.

Creation of a biological weapon in it’s most detailed way. Very good.

great take.

“for our purposes” – so neatly the twist hidden in there… nicely done
(btw morbidity is certainly right… technical epidemiological term)

Wonderful – I find both the hidden agenda, and the veiled disappointment that their beautiful specimen is somehow lacking extremely pleasing. Keep up the good work!

Well done! I love this… I’ve felt the same about highly effective computer viruses… Absolutely catastrophic but so well-built, so effective, such elegant code, that I would be thrilled to get infected with them. An honor, of sorts.

As if the hacker reached out and touched my computer.

Shit, now I’ve gotta write a ficlet.