Stories tagged “virus”
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Digital Genocide
The disease spread quickly. It could kill in a day or two and going anywhere near someone infected guaranteed transmission. Hundreds were dead. Thousands more would die soon. There was no cure known. Cases were cropping up on all corners of the colony....
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Quarantine
You don’t have to understand it. Hell, you don’t even have to know why it even exists. All you need to know is that it’s out there. It’s out there and it’s looking for you! Why? Does it really matter? Do you ask yourself, ...
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Virus! Virus! Virus!
I come to with my ears ringing and then it’s a few seconds before they’ve gripped the back of my neck and put me back under again. “Virus!” they scream, beating the sides of the white-washed cell with bloody night-sticks, “...
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viral foe pah
“What do you mean not on the list?” she said, exchanging glances with P. “I mean not on the list,” said the bouncer. “No entry. No login. VIPs only. Sorry, sweetie.” Her diamante bangles glittered as she pointed to ...
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The Outbreak
Mary Wake up A moan Mary A louder moan What is it Carl I couldn’t believe Carl was up this late, disturbing my sleep. There was only 3 more hours before I had to be at work. “Carl honey its late go back to sleep.” -“Mary it ha...
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On Butterfly Wings V: Emo
“He proposed to me, you know,” she suddenly said, after the long silence. “There, in sweet summer of 2159. We were walking by the industrial garden, gazing at the hovercars hanging overhead, when he stopped, right in front of me, and ...
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Pandora Virus
“Beautiful”, she said looking at the image in front of her. “And deadly”, he replied. “An untreated morbidity rate of 100% within 36 hours. And even with treatment that only diminishes to 80%. Multiple pathogenic pathways. Airborne, contact, ...
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Turn and Cough
The homo sapian. What a peculiar species. Honestly, I’m not sure what I think of them. Some of them, if not most of them, are very intelligent, particularly fascinating, surprisingly creative, and often possess a fair amount of common sense. An i...
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T'n'C: At an Expense
Considering that I harbor a small glimer of hope in humanity, it’s probably not the best idea to try something out at humanity’s expense. But, I feel compelled to try it out anyway. After careful research and experimentation, I’ve eng...
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Involuntary Crash #1
The plane’s instruments had failed. Seeing as how it was in the midst of one of the worst blizzards ever recorded, this was not entirely surprising. Such was life in the Northwest Territories. The small community of Wekweètì, situated about one...
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Regrouping
The wind protested through the compromised fuselage of the plane. Craig rubbed his head, steadying his Arctic-proofed tundra jacket. “Medicine all right?” he inquired. Timothy rifled through some assorted debris until he found four small ca...
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Deliverance
Prague was ground zero. No one expected this kind of thing to come out of the Czech Republic, but there you have it. In their defense, it was Americans doing the research. The disease spread faster than anything we’d ever seen before. Most of Eur...
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Eye of the Needle
Yeoman West sat pondering her fake SilkMilk anime tattoo; a white spider sitting on a milkmaid’s stool on a maple leaf background. During Earth’s 21st century, Nexia scientists successfully genetically modified silk-spinning genes into goat...