The Feast of the Drowned by Stephen Cole

Author:Stephen Cole [Cole, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9780563486442
Publisher: BBC NE PUBN
Published: 2006-06-13T07:00:00+00:00

two samples give us a chemical measure of the difference between heartbreak and mild regret. Isn’t that amazing? It’s wonderful!’

Rose felt Keisha’s eyes on her and blushed. ‘I don’t just feel mild regret about Jay, Doctor!’

‘The proof’s in your blood,’ he said, oblivious to her embarrassment.

‘What worries me is the way it got there. Airborne infection? Mental projection? And then there’s the other big question. Those soldiers on the bridge got drunk dry when there was a whole river underneath them going begging. Why?’ He gasped. Then sucked in his cheeks.

Then blew out a deep breath and clicked his fingers. ‘Mental and airborne! This is about pheromones. Pheromones taken to the max!’

‘We bunked off science, OK?’

‘Pheromones – a kind of communication through chemicals,’ he explained. ‘Little airborne signals just waiting for the right receivers.

Did you know a male moth can detect the spray of a ripe lady moth up to a mile away. He gets the signal, drops whatever he’s doing and goes off to chat her up.’

‘I’m so happy for Mr and Mrs Moth. What are you on about?’

‘These water-based life forms can dip into the human body and brain, right? You two are living proof of that.’ He glanced at Keisha.

‘And when Jay appeared to you, you saw him just as he used to be.

You believed absolutely it was him, despite all the evidence screaming that it couldn’t be.’

‘It was him,’ Keisha insisted, her voice wavering.

‘And yet Mickey, who’s never met Jay, couldn’t see him at all.’ He looked at Rose. ‘Just as we couldn’t see Anne’s son on the bridge, when to her he was clear as day.’

Rose sighed. ‘Go on, then, Sherlock. What’s this got to do with pheromones?’

‘What if these water-creatures collected sensory information from Jay, about himself and the people that lived In his memory, and exported it?’

‘What, you mean like opening a computer file and saving it as something else so another program can read it?’

‘Exactly.

They exported it as a bundle of alien pheromones –101

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