11-09-2010, 05:11 PM
1. Introduction
It didn't happen like she expected.
Alex had always anticipated that it would be dramatic. A government address, all forced calm and sweating brows, full of sweeping phrases that would never save anybody. It would definitely start in a big city, spread out like the plague from New York City or D.C.. The general populace would only find out about it when it was too late to stockpile, on a day so overcast that the very sky looked dingy.
How she discovered that the end of the world was coming, however, wasn't nearly that dramatic. The sun was out, warm beams reflected in the smiles and good humor of everyone. A Sunday morning for gentle strolls and singing birds. That is until a man stumbles out into a crowded area. It's Wisconsin, nothing bad happens here. So the people look up, at the man and only think that he is homeless, or deranged or both. Perhaps they should call someone, he's stumbling around and his eyes are bloodshot. He stumbles toward a small girl with yellow ribbons in her hair, she's only little, maybe six. She's innocent and small and no one will ever remember that she was the first carrier.
And then he sinks her teeth into her neck. And then it has come.
The end.
Last edited by BlackCart29; 11-13-2010 at 03:34 AM..
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