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Three days later, Jill buried Nora at Oakland Cemetery,
this made me cry. read this right after getting g off the phone with Mom and Dad
was in the air. As soon as the kids left the room, Jill sat at the kitchen table and wept.
Finally, the president appeared at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. He appeared deeply tanned, either from extra sessions in the tanning bed or an extra-heavy layer of pancake.
people realized that it wasn’t tears, it was blood. The president’s eyes were bleeding. Before he could finish the sentence, the transmission cut off.
“You mean, because you’re both Indians?” he said. Teddy nodded. “Well, yes, you are the same ethnic group, but pretty different in other ways. The Nez Perce are thousands of miles away from your tribe in Brazil.”
“What’s my tribe again?” “The Cinta Larga. It means ‘broad belt.’ ” Teddy made a face. “It’s a weird name.”
“I think she meant that the people in your little village died. Not the whole tribe. It was a disease they had.” “And you couldn’t save them.” Henry started to speak, but his voice failed him. He began to whittle another stick.
It wasn’t clear yet who they were. When
We will call you the Bear People.”
It’s not enough to take care of others, to work for freedom. No. We must annihilate those who believe differently or less than we. Those
“I hope you won’t take offense, but I’ve renounced all
forms of superstition, including religion.
“A friend of mine once said that when good people do good, and evil people do evil, it is not surprising. But when good people do evil, it takes religion to do that.”
There is only one place that has the capacity for making such an evil disease. Your Fort Detrick.”
But we can say for sure this is an American product.”
“Total lie. Fake news.”
“Kings Bay, Georgia?” Henry said. It seemed like a miracle. “There’s Kongoli on board.” “I’ll take that risk.” “Your choice, sir. But it’s deadly.” All Henry could think was that he was finally going home.
Jill had been dead for a week before Helen finally summoned the nerve to bury her. She waited until Teddy was asleep, then went to the backyard to dig the grave.
Helen wanted to scream, but then she told herself again, This is not my mother. This is not my mother.
Both the U.S. and Russia were in a fever of paranoia and hatred, lusting for some kind of orgasmic finale that was
somehow short of all-out nuclear war.
The new president, still sheltering in the vast Mount Weather bunker with other senior officials, issued a reassuring statement on the Emergency Alert System that a cure was on the horizon, stores would soon be open again, the baseball season would resume—all lies, as everyone knew, but respectfully reported.
other one died?
There was video of the abducted primates that had been let loose in Harvard Square.
just lime the Emory protest to protect the primates
suggest a death toll in excess of three hundred million people.”
response. “Humans have become a problem,” he finally said. “Speaking as a human, selfishly, I hope that our species endures. But there is little doubt that the planet would be better off without us.”
Captain Vernon Dixon was
Gouldian finches,”
ibrutinib in the pharmaceuticals cabinet. I’ve read your charts. How long have you been on chemo?”
He handed the commander a mask and plastic gloves.
He gave the wallet to Helen and put the gun in his pocket.
“For a starter, you should have him killed,”
gardener. Jenner called the procedure a “vaccination.” The word itself comes from vacca, Latin for “cow.”
“I’m going to have to kill your birds.”
“Desperate. I injected the solution half an hour ago.”
one maxim that he had drawn from Albert Schweitzer’s philosophy:
All life is sacred.
Juruena River
variety. Even in this wilderness there were marks of civilization: small tin huts built on piers in the water with satellite dishes on the roof.
farther up the Juruena to the point where the Arinos River flowed into it.
The kill team was provided with Novichok, the toxin developed by Russian chemists that had become the favored means of assassination by security
what Putin just used on Nalvany
we predict the second wave to be much worse than the first. It’s now been seeded everywhere on earth. You can expect it by October.”
Government broken. Mobs in the street. This is America we’re talking about, can you believe it? Land of opportunity.” He paused a
“Wait,” said Henry, “how do I get to Atlanta?”
why not try to call Jill??
as the Army of American Patriots, fomented by Russian bots and manifested in the actual recruitment of hundreds of armed American citizens subverting their
own government, unaware that they were acting as a fifth column for the Russians.
Garcia had been summoned to the Cosmos Club, where presidents and Nobel Prize winners and Supreme Court justices came together to celebrate their importance. He
Humanity had enlisted the microbe as a weapon. He could imagine the day when all the diseases in the freezer were set loose. Including his own.
atoll called October Revolution Island. It’s just north of Siberia in the Arctic Circle.
“By the way, what do you call the agent?” Tildy asked Henry. Jürgen answered for him. “We named it Enterovirus parsons, after its creator.”
laboratory.” “Not in mice,” said Jürgen. “No, not in mice. Which is what still confuses me. I’ve often thought about that day in the Indian camp. In addition to the humans, there was a dead mouse in one of the huts.”
