The TS-17 virus spread throughout the world population, killing millions and causing people's intelligence to drop to 25% of their previous level. Five years later, the world is a wasteland and now Kaitlyn is one of the tiny number of people called...
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A/N Kindly put your playlist here.
(hey it worked for The Girl he never noticed, we're just interested to see what people put. We need new sounds people).
I walked into the living room to find a middle-aged man sitting watching football on our TV set. He had a crooked face, a faded baseball hat that covered hair that looked like cotton wool which had been teased out by a deranged pigeon. Just then mom came in.
"Invaders! Invaders! Where is my gun!!" Mom shouted. "Set Rover on him."
Rover was our cat. Mom had wanted an attack dog but came back from the store with a cat. She still called it Rover and had put the words 'Beware of Rover the attack cat' on the garden gate. She had been pleased so far, it had worked and we hadn't been burgled.
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"Touch down!" said the man punching the air with his beer can. Mom hid behind the sofa. Getting a better look at him I recognized who it was.
"Mr. Smith you're in the wrong house again," I said. Mr. Smith was a neighbor from over the road. I checked out the game he was watching so enthusiastically. It was the New York Yankees against the Dolphins. Mr. Smith was a Dolphins fan. Ever since the virus hit-hard they kept running repeats of old matches. Weirdly no one had really noticed that the whole thing was an exercise in futility. The same people kept winning over and over again. Oddly most supporters didn't pay attention to this and people kept supporting their local team as dedicatedly as they did before. Perhaps TS-17 affected people's memories because no one seemed to be able to realize it was just the same set of matches over and over again. The same teams kept winning, same losers, same monumental crucial life or death matches, nothing would change, everything would be reset next year. I knew from experience this game would end up as 30 to 31.
"Help" shouted Mom "I'm being terrorized!"
There were regular TV news broadcasts about people being broken into by terrorist organizations like PI. Hence the attack cat. The news reports tended to repeat one channel reporting what another channel said. This would go around until the first channel would report on the reporting of the reporting of the reporting of the something, they had made up in the first place. The current round had grown out of reports of the wind knocking bins over. This had grown into a widespread fear which included links to the much feared 'PI' a secret organization of super terrorists which, I thought, was as likely to be real as Melania Trump's pout.
When the virus struck some scientists said we needed shots for the virus. So the government, taking it literally, had made the owning of firearms mandatory. All that really happened was that people just regularly shot each other or themselves by accident. Millions had died when the virus struck, the shootings (mostly self-inflicted ) had added millions more. The population of what was America was down to about 50 million but no one was sure because not enough people could count well enough to make an accurate tally.
