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    Breaking the Cycle
    Breaking the Cycle
    Breaking the Cycle
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    Breaking the Cycle

    By William Petersen

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    Humans have settled into the remains of the cities, leaving the outlying suburbs and rural areas to those afflicted by the parasite.

    A field biologist in another life, Mike has to find a way to break the parasite's life cycle, before the human species is erased from the planet.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilliam Petersen
    Release dateMar 28, 2014
    ISBN9781311433114
    Breaking the Cycle
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    William Petersen

    William hails from Missouri and finds endless inspiration within the natural world for science-fiction, horror and fantasy... A proud member of the St. Louis Area Horror Writers' Society, William's writing has appeared in anthologies from The Bearded Scribe Press and JWK Fiction, as well as in Nebula Rift, Under the Bed, Far Horizons and Calamities Press Literary magazines.

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      Breaking the Cycle - William Petersen

      Breaking the Cycle

      By: William Petersen

      Copyright 2014 William Petersen

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      Mike adjusted the bandana that substituted for a surgical mask and refocused his attention to the task at hand. He positioned the scalpel at the conjunction of limbs protruding from what was, at one point in time, a normal human knee joint. The malformed mess on the table was just one of millions. Millions and millions of what used to be people, now just mutated masses of limbs and digits, repulsive and frightening.

      A sound from behind distracted him and he again lost his focus. Timmy was approaching with a wheeled table, another of the morphed and lifeless bodies on it, dragging his mutated leg behind him. Timmy was about eighteen, though his condition not only interfered with his physical state, but also affected his mental abilities, leaving him with the mentality of a child. His right leg, if it could be called that anymore, had two misshapen and underdeveloped leg-things dangling uselessly from the knee joint. They had little bone content, and while very much alive, they did not respond to commands from the body and did not move at all. One grew a full twelve inches longer than his existing leg, with the other stopping about mid-calf, both with deformed feet at

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