Alpha and Omega – A 100 Word Story

storytime.pngYup, it’s flash fiction time again!

As always, this is based around Laurence Simon’s weekly challenge for the 100 word-stories podcast. It’s a great exercise for writers – writing a good drabble is a lot harder than it appears, but is still a "small" task so you can get around that idea of it being too much work. And then you get a random (and often bizarre) writing prompt to shoehorn you out of writer’s block! Go read the rules for the Weekly Challenge and participate! Heck, Chris the Nuclear Kid does when he remembers to (and I can drag him away from video games)!

Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to record the story this week, but you can also read and hear the rest of the entries at the 100 Word Stories podcast site!
Whipper in a suitI noticed the tear when I took off the cleansuit. Only a few millimeters wide, but that’s a vast chasm for a virus.

"Come on," I told myself while removing the boots. I put the cleansuit in the incinerator. "The samples were all contained. The suit’s just a redundancy." I just snagged some blisterpacks of antivirals.

My fever hit 100 by the freeway. Hallucinations – and the wreck – occurred at 103 degrees. Over 23 people have already touched me. Rate of contact transmission with gloves is 95%. The fatality rate is 85%.

I am the alpha of humanity’s omega.