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Beginning of the End

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The virus is nothing like in the movies. You know, the ones where the whole world withers and dies in a matter of days or weeks from the first sign of an infection. It probably would be better that way: painful, but quick.

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At times it's easy to envy those that died when it all started, because at least for them it's over. For everyone else, it has only just begun; it's the beginning of the end.

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"This is the way the world ends...
Not with a bang, but a whimper.

― T.S. Eliot

Written for this contest.

Won first place in this contest.

Also entered in: 01, 02, 03.

(c) Careless Whisper. 2012
  1. Prologue.
    "The virus is nothing like in the movies." 552 words.
  2. Chapter One.
    "None of this makes any damn sense." 1,731 words.
  3. Chapter Two.
    "This is how the infected act." 2,067 words.
  4. Chapter Three.
    "We could use some rain." 2,102 words.
  5. Chapter Four.
    "Were you bitten?" 1,633 words.
  6. Chapter Five.
    "There's something you should know..." 1,111 words.