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    Infection
    Infection
    Infection
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    Infection

    By Greg Ellis

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    How far is love willing to go in the face of catastrophe?

    Infection is a 5600 word science fiction/horror story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGreg Ellis
    Release dateDec 16, 2011
    ISBN9781466025264
    Infection
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    Greg Ellis

    A native-born Californian transplanted to Ohio then back to California and currently to Oklahoma. I've been a technical writer, an administration manager, a security guard at a federal laboratory, a WalMart department manager, and am currently a technical writer again. I write science fiction and horror and have been writing since I was in grade school. I've also designed and written games, particularly the play-by-email game Fire On The Suns. I'm 55, white, single, live in Broken Arrow, OK, and like beer, dogs, good food, cheese, chocolate, fishing, and writing.

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      Book preview

      Infection - Greg Ellis

      INFECTION

      by

      G.W. Ellis

      Infection Copyright © 2012 by G.W. Ellis

      Smashwords Edition

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States of America by G.W. Ellis as an electronic book

      First Edition published as Infection by G.W. Ellis, January, 2012

      INFECTION

      by

      G.W. Ellis

      I know I'm infected.

      It's a strange feeling, like there's something crawling and wriggling through the folds of my cerebellum, taking control of my limbs, and eating away at my thoughts. I feel the twitching in my fingers, the twisting in my legs and back, the involuntary movements of my facial muscles as the parasite starts taking over.

      I know where I picked the parasite up from. It only takes a single cell to invade and start the change. Usually it uses a larger host and a more forceful approach to overtake its victims, but I've tried to be careful, so very, very careful.

      Did I inhale it? Drink it? Did it get into me through a scratch or a cut, a nick in a rubber glove or fault in a mask?

      Anything's possible. Once a host has been infected the parasite is extremely aggressive. We found out that much at least before we lost the town and the hospital and the labs. In truth, early on, we had so little clue what we were dealing with that biohazard protocols were largely ignored.

      No one does much more than glove, mask, and gown up at a murder scene or during an autopsy. Level One biohazard precautions, yes. Level Four? We didn't even consider them at first.

      The transformation

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