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    Quarantine Protocol
    Quarantine Protocol
    Quarantine Protocol
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    Quarantine Protocol

    By Clint Westgard

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    A deadly contagion is spreading like wildfire across the planet. Cities and nations lie in ruins, except for those that have enacted the Quarantine Protocol.

    Jon and Marta live under the Protocol, trying to make a happy life from the ruins of their former one. They believe they have succeeded , even as the threat of the plague shadows all their days.

    The life they have built, and the very bonds that tie them together, will be gravely tested when the specter of imminent death presses a little too closely. They will discover that the Quarantine Protocol—the iron law that has saved them—will now tear them apart.

    A science fiction story about the impossible choices that remain when the world has come to an end.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLost Quarter Books
    Release dateOct 23, 2013
    ISBN9780992131418
    Quarantine Protocol
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    Clint Westgard

    Clint Westgard is the author of The Shadow Men Trilogy and the science fiction epic The Sojourner Cycle, the first volume of which, The Forgotten, was published in 2015. In addition, he has published a work of historical fantasy set in colonial Peru, The Masks of Honor, and a retelling of the Minotaur legend, The Trials of the Minotaur. Clint Westgard lives in Calgary, Alberta.

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      QUARANTINE PROTOCOL

      CLINT WESTGARD

      Quarantine Protocol

      Published by Lost Quarter Books

      December, 2013

      Quarantine Protocol by Clint Westgard is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.  

      ISBN: 978-0-9921314-1-8 

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      QUARANTINE PROTOCOL

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      ALSO BY CLINT WESTGARD

      THE DAY HAD BEEN humid and now the sky, with its gathering clouds, promised a storm. The glasses of beer Marta had poured for them both had glistening pools of water at their base. She called to Jon from the patio that overlooked the courtyard in their apartment complex, Are you coming out?

      Yes, he said and in a moment he joined her. They sat for awhile in a peaceful, easy silence, drinking their beer and looking at the sky.

      Might be a storm tonight, Jon said.

      I hope so.

      Jon smiled. Marta had always disliked the heat of the summer and the humidity that came with it. She enjoyed the drama of the storms as well, the way the air went still before they arrived and then the abrupt and torrential rains, along with the cataclysms of thunder and lightning. It was these simple pleasures that they clung to when so many others were denied them now.

      Are you going out tomorrow? he asked her.

      Yes, I have to get my prescription.

      He nodded and they both lapsed into silence, this time marked by a shared unease, which lasted until the beers were gone and they went back inside.

      MARTA LEFT FIRST THING in the morning, the sun still hidden behind the city’s skyline. The streets were nearly empty, with only the odd car driving past her. Most of them were official vehicles, Quarantine Patrol or the police, making their daily circuits. There was one civilian vehicle that drove alongside her for a moment, causing her to stop and watch as it continued down the street for a few blocks before turning onto a main thoroughfare. It was such a rare sight that she was immediately suspicious of the driver’s intentions. She had a hand radio with her, tuned to the Quarantine Patrol channel, but she decided against using it and wasting the battery.

      There were few other people about, all of them alone and wary like her. Their encounters always followed the same elaborate dance, with one person moving across to the opposite side of the street so that they could pass by each other without risk. Proximity led to contamination, those were the watchwords of all their days. One could never be sure who had escaped the Quarantine Patrol and was wandering the streets polluted, which was why people rarely left their homes.

      In many ways, she reflected, because so few people were ever about it was far safer to move around the city now than in the first weeks after the contamination had arrived and people had been more

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