The latest chapter of my free online novel ED Day is now up :
If this was bird flu, I hadn't seen anything this extreme before. I coughed up plenty of blood and pus when I was ill at the detention camp. I felt like I was going to die, the throbbing agony in my bones and joints and the struggle to breathe through all that fluid, the endless vomiting and stomach muscle spasms, all of it made me want to die. But I didn't begin to decompose when I was still alive, like Maggie.
Is this the next mutation? Is this how bird flu is going to really finish off humanity? By mutating into an evil more horrific virus and delivering a immune-system apocalypse that means no-one can survive once they got sick because decomposition begins before you even die?
Be warned, though, this chapter gets gruesome as it vividly describes the last hours of an elderly bird flu victim.
If you haven't been reading ED Day, you can start here at Chapter One.
If you're a regular reader, here's a link to Chapter Fifteen.
