Goodreads asked Neil A. Hogan:

Can you tell us a two-sentence horror story?

Neil A. Hogan Without provocation or warning, the aliens sprayed a particularly virulent form of wart virus into the upper atmosphere, spreading it via cyclones, hurricanes and thunderstorms, raining it down on the unsuspecting masses. Within days the skin of the entire human race had become riddled with the contagion, white threads spurting out of comatose faces, thick roots shooting from dead feet and hands, and vines of skin snaking through doors and windows and connecting with other human bodies, creating a massive earth-sized nest of interlocked corpses.

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