Charles Johnson, Jr

The Heart-Shaped Locket

It is the Year of our Lord 2235, we just survived what scientists and astronomers has deemed as "God's cure" for the Earth's over-population problem and excessive gross misconduct...a meteor shower like that in which happened in Sodom and Gomorrah, except on a global scale. However, this batch of meteors came from a sector of space where it was considered the "Dead Zone" because no life seems to make it beyond this zone, a zone much like what we called here on earth the "Bermuda Triangle" where countless planes and ships have vanished after entering the area to never be heard from again. These meteors from the "Dead Zone" would prove to be more deadly than any falling meteors and asteroids to ever hit the earth because what was discovered hidden within them not to mention the sheer size of some of them, some as large as a cow. You see, as the meteors started entering the Earth's atmosphere, the outer layer is burned as it heads towards earth and usually lands somewhere such as in the desert where it remains dormant. However, until now we never ventured to find out what happens if it made contact with water until it was infecting us all because we didn't know what was hidden underneath the surface of the outer layer of the meteorite that when exposed to water and evaporates causes spores to become airborne and anyone who inhaled or any water source that it came in contact with would only cause the spores to germinate, such as in your eyes and mouth areas in which are usually wet...it feeds on the nutrients and irons contained in the fluids we have in our bodies. So as we perspire as in exercise, these unseen spores would attach itself to our sweat and enter into our bodies within our pores accelerating its growth rate in which it takes over the host. Eventually, the host dies of what seems to be a new strain of the flu having accelerated flu-like symptoms unlike any strain that ever existed in human history. So deadly this strain is that causes the host to begin to lose sight within a few days of exposure, next the sense of smell then that of taste. Eventually, the host dies due to no cure for this unknown virus.