Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Mood: sad
  • Music: Kat getting ready for school.

T-minus 4 days to DEADLINE.

Reston, Virginia. July 30th, 2014.

It had taken six of the Valium pills John kept hidden at the back of the medicine cabinet, but Alexander Kellis was finally ready. He checked the knot on his rope one more time. It was good; it would hold. Maybe it wasn't elegant, but he didn't deserve elegant, did he? He destroyed the world. Children would curse his name for generations, assuming there were any generations yet to come. John was gone, forever. It was over.

"I'll see you soon, sweetheart," he whispered, and stepped off the edge of his desk. No one would find his body for weeks. If he reanimated, he starved without harming anyone. Alexander Kellis never harmed anyone.

Not on purpose.

***

Please return to your homes. Please remain calm. This is not a drill. If you have been infected, please contact authorities immediately. If you have not been infected, please remain calm. This is not a drill. Please return to your homes...

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phoenix_singing

May 28 2011, 00:42:38 UTC 6 years ago

OH ALEX. ;_;

yellowblackhaze

May 28 2011, 01:04:20 UTC 6 years ago

So very sad. Off to go cry now.

notalwaysweak

May 28 2011, 01:54:52 UTC 6 years ago

ALL THE HUGS, still. Poor man.

dormouse_in_tea

May 28 2011, 05:03:06 UTC 6 years ago

FYI, every Samhain I light candles in memory of certain people from books who deserved a better deal than they got, who make me ache because of the hand they had to play.

Alexander Kellis just got added to the list.

cflute

May 28 2011, 06:19:11 UTC 6 years ago

every Samhain I light candles in memory of certain people from books

That's a very cool idea! Btw, lovely icon. What's it from? Is it a picture or a painting or ???

paradisacorbasi

May 29 2011, 01:01:43 UTC 6 years ago

I agree. I may have to do that.

dormouse_in_tea

May 30 2011, 16:56:20 UTC 6 years ago

i cropped it down from an image i saved from somewhere on the internets. so i'm violating someone's copyright *gloomy*

lysythe

May 28 2011, 06:58:09 UTC 6 years ago

hngaaaa

fullcontactmuse

May 28 2011, 16:49:15 UTC 6 years ago

I suppose I should wipe my tears and go get ready for my day.

Thank you, Seanan! These are wonderful and I can't wait for the book to come!

Thinky thinky thoughts.

paradisacorbasi

May 29 2011, 01:00:58 UTC 6 years ago

How much does The Newsflesh Verse make me think?

After I recovered from the BAWWWWW POOR ALEXANDER WHY WHYYYYY, I began to think about his death.

I wondered why Alexander didn't shoot himself in the head to make sure he didn't reanimate?

My first thought was that gay men don't always follow the cultural picture of what is "manly", and he wasn't doing it to prove anything to anybody. He'd already told off Brandon the boob.

But then it occurred to me that maybe he didn't shoot himself in the head because he left himself to science in his suicide note, so that when anyone found him, they'd just be able to wrap up his weak, starving zombie self, tuck it in a truck, and ship it off to some lab somewhere to help find a cure.



cleothyla

May 29 2011, 06:57:42 UTC 6 years ago

Poor Doctor Kellis. :(
As I was listening to Feed again today, something made me think,"What about abortion in the Newsflesh Verse? What happens to the fetus? Yes, I sometimes have weird thoughts.

kyrielle

May 30 2011, 18:44:01 UTC 6 years ago

I'd think that would be pretty sadly safe - believe you have to be at least 50 pounds to amplify, otherwise you don't have the mass for it? Sorry, I don't have Feed handy to check but I believe it was stated somewhere.

baby_werewolf

June 1 2011, 14:17:06 UTC 6 years ago

That then makes me wonder, what happens to the foetus if a pregnant woman amplifies? Does it stop developing/miscarry if the virus reroutes her systems (and babies presumably aren't its priority)? At what point does it count as a separate organism for amplification purposes? If it does somehow carry on developing, do you get zombie women going into labour with human babies?

...this is a rather disturbing train of thought.

kyrielle

June 1 2011, 16:24:03 UTC 6 years ago

...yes, yes it is.

thedorkygirl

June 17 2011, 03:43:20 UTC 6 years ago

I'd think the virus would turn on the fetus as a competing infection

fayanora

June 12 2011, 13:11:43 UTC 6 years ago

Poor Dr. Kellis. :-(

thedorkygirl

June 17 2011, 03:42:35 UTC 6 years ago

:(
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