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    Flash Virus: Episode Four: Flash Virus, #4
    Flash Virus: Episode Four: Flash Virus, #4
    Flash Virus: Episode Four: Flash Virus, #4
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    Flash Virus: Episode Four: Flash Virus, #4

    By Steve Vernon

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    This the story of the end of the world - as told by a teenager.

    Things are really beginning to heat up in Briar's school.

    Captain Albino's kid-programming sessions are underway.

    Under the blue light Briar and his friends are transformed physically.

    Under the yellow light Briar and his friends are transformed mentally.

    But it isn't until Captain Albino takes Briar to the burning barrel that Briar finds out just how bad things can really get.

    You DEFINITELY won't want to miss this episode.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSteve Vernon
    Release dateMay 23, 2013
    ISBN9780988097285
    Flash Virus: Episode Four: Flash Virus, #4
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    Steve Vernon

    Everybody always wants a peek at the man behind the curtain. They all want to see just exactly what makes an author tick.Which ticks me off just a little bit - but what good is a lifetime if you can't ride out the peeve and ill-feeling and grin through it all. Hi! I am Steve Vernon and I'd love to scare you. Along the way I'll try to entertain you and I guarantee a giggle as well.If you want to picture me just think of that old dude at the campfire spinning out ghost stories and weird adventures and the grand epic saga of how Thud the Second stepped out of his cave with nothing more than a rock in his fist and slew the mighty saber-toothed tiger.If I listed all of the books I've written I'd most likely bore you - and I am allergic to boring so I will not bore you any further. Go and read some of my books. I promise I sound a whole lot better in print than in real life. Heck, I'll even brush my teeth and comb my hair if you think that will help any.For more up-to-date info please follow my blog at:http://stevevernonstoryteller.wordpress.com/And follow me at Twitter:@StephenVernonyours in storytelling,Steve Vernon

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      Flash Virus - Steve Vernon

      Cover Art: Keith Draws

      ISBN-13: 978-0-9880972-8-5

      First Printing – January 6, 2013

      Second Edition – April 7, 2013

      Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in, or transmitted in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and above publisher of this book.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      The publisher and author does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-person web sites or their content.

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      DEDICATION

      To My Wife Belinda – From whom I caught love like a cool disease.

      What Has Gone Before

      THE WHOLE TROUBLE STARTED when Captain Albino brought his stormtrooper army to Briar’s High School.

      The next thing you know he has handed out free cell phones that suck your brain out and transform you into a Gray Whisperer – fit only for the Whispering Cage.

      Next thing, Captain Albino is in control.

      You want to eat – you do what he tells you.

      You want to live – you do what he tells you.

      Only Briar has other plans...

      Chapter Twenty Eight – A Happy Haystack Monster

      TIME OR SOMETHING LIKE it passed by.

      The lights turned off.

      The lights turned on.

      Right now, breakfast was a bowl full of corn flakes and powdered milk and another glassful of that sickly artificial orange juice.

      I suppose the orange juice was supposed to be nutritious. Possibly it was even a good part of a balanced breakfast – if you held the glass of juice in one hand and the cereal bowl in your other and you didn’t wobble – but it still tasted like a glass full of peed-in toilet water.

      We had to take turns pushing each other down again before we got to eat. Little Jemmy pushed Wendy and she pushed him back – just hard enough to keep Captain Albino happy.

      I would have given a hundred thousand free video games to be the one being pushed down by Wendy Perkins – but I was still stuck with Big Ben Bigfoot – who, judging by how hard he actually pushed me must have still been feeling sore at me about how his friends, Lonnie and Billy Carver, had both ended up in the whispering cage.

      Big Ben Bigfoot dropped me like a dirty sock on laundry day.

      As for me - I was getting pretty tired of having Big Ben Bigfoot Hansen hang around us like he was doing but it turned out that he was actually a whole lot more useful than I thought he was going to be in the first place.

      Yes sir, Big Ben Bigfoot was awfully helpful when it came to trouble.

      The trouble actually started while I was walking back to my dodge ball bag with my cereal bowl and my toilet bowl orange juice. Two kids were standing in front of Little Jemmy who was standing in front of Wendy. I recognized Max – who was a football player on the school team. I don’t know what his buddy’s name was but they were both wearing football jerseys so I expected that both of them played for the school team.

      We’re hungry, Max’s buddy said to Little Jemmy.

      Yeah, Max said. We’re hungry and we’re a lot bigger than you.

      I guess that was some kind of mathematics.

      Give us your food, Max’s buddy said.

      Little Jemmy wasn’t backing down one single inch.

      I’ll say you’re both bigger. Have either of you ever thought about trying Jenny Craig? Little Jemmy asked. These corn flakes have got way too many carbs in their nutritional content for somebody who is as metabolically challenged as you are.

      I don’t think that Max or either of his buddies had two stupid clues as to what the words metabolically and challenged meant by their own self – let alone used together with words with as many syllables in them as nutritional and content - like Little Jemmy did with them – but I’m pretty sure that between the three of them they could figure out that Little Jemmy was using his vocabulary to make Max and his buddies look even dumber than they really were.

      Which really wasn’t all that hard.

      So Max socked Little Jemmy in the side of his head – which was pretty stupid when you stop and think about it – which Max DIDN’T – given that that hit to the head knocked both Little Jemmy AND his bowl of cereal to the floor of the gym. I mean – if they’d wanted corn flakes that badly, how much sense did it make knocking the kid who was holding

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