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Submitted to Contest #300
“Mr. Abernathy? Mr. Donald Abernathy!?” Was someone speaking to him? That name didn’t seem right. Familiar, though… shit, it was his name for the moment! Why were his eyelids so heavy? Bright lights, fuzzy. A man… a doctor was looking down at him.The doctor spoke loudly and slowly. “Mr. Abernathy, I am pleased you are with us! I am Doctor Dariuki. You have been in a car crash and are in Kisumu Specialist Hospital.”A crash? Where was he? “Where?,” he managed to croak.“Kisumu. Kisumu Specialist Hospital.”“No, what country?”“Oh…” The doctor was...
Submitted to Contest #299
“How the hell could this have spread so far without us knowing!?” The President’s chief of staff was apoplectic, not unusual for the man. Furious tended to be his default setting. Rumor had it that he had started cursing in German when he was really mad, perhaps an affectation.“Well?” The NIH director looked at the US map on the large screen with confirmed cases plotted on it and back to the chief of staff. “We don’t know. The symptoms are difficult to differentiate from… uh, other things.”“Scheisse! How is it contracted?”“We don’t know. We ...
Submitted to Contest #298
Elissa leaned against Orta’s neck, feeding the rest of the Pundar weed to the weak elephant. Orta chewed the weed, not able to lift her head. Her trunk slid along the ground to grab Elissa’s ankle, a soft embrace of the woman who loved and cared for her. The elephant sighed as the Pundar took effect and opened one eye to look at her caretaker as her last breath huffed out.Elissa nodded to the handful of elephant handlers gathered on the other side of the carcass, careful not to show them the tears on her face. She stood up straight and w...
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