EP Flash: Virus

Filed in 10 and Up, Flash, OK for Kids, Podcasts on July 24, 2005 with 6 comments
 
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By Greg van Eekhout.
Read by Deborah Green.
All stories by Greg van Eekhout
All stories read by Deborah Green

Drawn by the sound of the propellers, the lunchtime crowd looked to the sky. An airship passed over the skyscrapers, plumes of black, virus-laden smoke spewing behind it. Traffic below stopped. People paused on the sidewalks and watched the cloud sink slowly towards them.

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  1. PaulJ says:
    July 26, 2005 at 6:48 pm

    Short but effective. Almost a vignette. (Makes me want to submit a really short one of my own that might fit….)

  2. JesseWillis says:
    July 26, 2005 at 9:28 pm

    Do it Paul!

    BTW thanks for the plug on your most recent podcast. :)

  3. Karina says:
    August 2, 2005 at 2:37 am

    Very surprising, very good. Love this podcast, have gone from ‘curious’ to ‘rabid fan’ in a matter of days. Yes, will donate ;-)

  4. SFEley says:
    August 2, 2005 at 4:40 pm

    Thanks, Karina! Very glad you’re enjoying it.

  5. Mindy Robinson says:
    June 27, 2007 at 7:25 pm

    Lots of visual cues make this very easy to imagine. Could use a little more stylistic spice. Interesting idea.

  6. scatterbrain says:
    March 24, 2008 at 7:51 pm

    How he got all that in 1:30 seconds I only wish I knew the secret of.