Friday, October 30, 2009

"Madness in the Blood " by Catherine Graham

Madness in the Blood
by Catherine Graham
read by Jason Warden
For seven days Jen watched the body count pile up on the news. Five dead on Wednesday, 8 on Thursday, 12 on Friday. The numbers kept going up every day and the numbers went so high that on the seventh day she decided she couldn’t watch the news anymore. She switched it off and went out for a walk, but still she couldn’t escape the escalating numbers of dead people in her city. People were talking about them at the bus stop, in the coffee shops and in the queue for the cash machine. Everyone could see what was happening but no one knew why…except for Jen....
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The image "Germs" was selected specifically for this story and seems to me to be a very graphic representation of what lies within the words. Thank you to Eliza Stein for its use.
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