A New World: Untold Stories by O'Brien John

Author:O'Brien, John [O'Brien, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2014-05-11T04:00:00+00:00

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Trish is the woman in white that Jack saw by the side of the road as he was driving to pick up Robert, Nic, and Bri from their mother’s house. They missed each other by scant minutes.

Atlanta, Georgia

Gabe Simons stares out of the tinted windows that cover an entire wall of his office. Five floors up, he has a view over much of the campus below. Sunlight pounds against the walls and park-like walks between the buildings. There aren’t many people to be seen as the heat and humidity keeps most indoors. Although the scene appears peaceful, he knows that chaos reigns inside the structures as everything seems to be coming apart at the seams.

This was supposed to be easy, but it’s been anything but, he thinks, looking over the sunbaked landscape and thankful for the air-conditioning inside. Nothing is going according to plan.

It took him a long time to reach his current position as the director of the CDC. He remembers each step; the long years of schooling, the heat of the tropics as he accompanied teams into the depths of the jungles, hours spent in personal protection gear as samples of infectious diseases were gathered, many more spent in labs, and three divorces. Now that all seems for naught as the world is coming apart. The plan was for this to go smoothly, but that went out of the window with the genetic mutations occurring.

He hasn’t heard much of anything from the others in the past few days. The messages he did receive from several of his counterparts were vague and contained a sense of panic. He fully understands as he has a sense of that himself.

Swiveling back from the view, he looks at the piles of folders and reports stacked on his opulent desk. His eyes pass over his office with its plush paneling and rich carpets of deep blue. This was once his haven, his man-cave as it were. Now, it feels like his prison.

The folders contain the reports from his staff about the Cape Town virus and subsequent mutations from the vaccine. He had signed the notification for the cessation of vaccines, but he feels that the notice may have come too late. Some towns have virtually disappeared and reports say that many bases, especially those overseas, have ceased to respond to any communications. Although that alone wouldn’t cause the anxiety he feels, as most would have died anyway, it’s the lack of response from those who were to have inhabited the bunkers that worry him.

Sighing deeply, he starts through the reports once again. He stuffs the ones referring to the virus itself into their appropriate folders. It’s the reports from his staff regarding the mutations that he’s mostly interested in. With a lot of difficulty, they were able to grab several specimens, although it took a lot of tranquilizer to collect the infected. His people had them in the underground labs and were running tests. Some were to test the physical manifestations, others the abilities.

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