Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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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.

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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...

When will you Rise?
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No good deed goes unpunished.

On a related note, things I wonder about this world when I read these stories and the book(s):

What happened in Africa, China, India, and especially in tightly packed Japan?

If this affects mammals over 40 lbs, does this mean the ocean is now even more dangerous with zombie dolphins?

Speaking of Africa and Asia, Zombie elephants... OFMG.

Corporate animal farms... ZOMFG

This would be a great setting for All Flesh Must Be Eaten.
What happened in some other parts of the world does get talked about in Deadline. Not all of those places, as there's only so much room in a book, but some questions do get answered.
Yay for The Vixy parceling out tidbits of neatness!

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You dear are both awesome and terrible!

Awesome because you dish out information.
Terrible because you dish out information.

:D