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Scientists and their research assistants will stroll toward the big lab just north of the Square, where they’ll sit on cushy stools all day, PICC lines hooked to their arms as they experiment with herbal extracts, trying to cure the Great Fatigue. The manual laborers will drift east of Main, toward grueling twelve-hour shifts in the meat processing plant, sewage treatment facility, and cluster of factories that churn out our clothing and other necessities. And hidden among the flow of bodies will be Caldwell’s town supervisors, keeping mostly to themselves, but eyeing the crowd for anyone
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the original hundred and seventy-nine settlers had it worse.
It might help brighten the Professor’s mood, even if it won’t lift mine. After being marooned here for all these years, I have no idea what will. But it certainly isn’t catching Andes.
the signature grunts of a handful of Andes. Homo sapien grunts, sure, but not a sound I could reproduce if I tried. Short, guttural barks, clearly some type of rudimentary language.
Their bodies are human, but their brains are not. One wrong step, and you’ll be the one caught.
Most people in New Haven don’t have the pain tolerance for a push of NAD, the only real remedy we’ve found to temporarily overcome the Fatigue we all suffer from.
about the bacteria that led to the downfall of man. Not a new disease, but rather one that had existed for millennia. Various forms of the same bacteria thrived on different continents, and the diseases they caused had many names—cat-scratch fever, trench fever, carrion’s disease. These maladies plagued humanity for centuries, but with transmission occurring primarily through biting insects, most never became household names. All that changed one summer thirty-some years ago. Mutated Strain, Antibiotic Resistant, Aerosol Transmission—those were the headlines of the day. After it struck, the
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No drugs proved effective at fighting it—not until Advitalon. After a short human trial showed positive results, world governments quickly moved it into mass production and made treatment mandatory.
