Authors note, this is the first real story I have ever
written (with the exception of "add a paragraph".. and why aren't you good people contributing to that?), I have a pretty fair Idea of how I want it to begin, not so sure on the ending, so lets just see where it goes...
SONG LIST.
2011.
31st Dec. Singing in the Shower. Takeaways.
31st Dec. Devils Right Hand. Steve Earle.
31st. Dec. American Pie. Don McLean.
2012.
1st. Jan. Cars. Gary Numan.
1st. Jan. Bang Bang. Cher.
1st. Jan. Sister Golden Hair. America.
1st. Jan Doing all right. Queen. (May & Staffle)
1st. Jan. Cows with guns, Dana Lyons
2nd. Jan. G.I. Joe children's cartoon opening.
2nd. Jan. Sky High, Jigsaw.
6th. Jan. Pilot of the airwaves. Charlie Dore
7th. Jan. All Dead. Queen.
8th. Jan. Radio Ga Ga. Queen.
9th. Jan. I love a rainy night. Eddie Rabbitt.
11th. Jan. Bob the builder Theme Song.
12th. Jan Not Fade Away. Buddy Holly / Norman Petty. Tanya Tucker.
13th. Jan. Who can it be now. Men at work.
14th. Jan. Goin' Down. The Monkees.
Additional, There will be some racist material in this story, it centres on African Americans, since the KKK is involved, it is unavoidable, and pivotal to the story.. hope there are no hard feelings guys.
We begin.
I guess I have time to write it all down, Hiding away like a timid white rabbit, I have nothing but time.
The first time I got the slightest idea that something bad might happen was around 3 months ago, right at the end of October 2011. Sitting down to dinner. The evening news showing, the headline story caught my attention almost instantly. "The FBI is hunting extremist members of the Ku Klux Klan, who have promised to use germ warfare on African Americans, If they are not removed from the United states within 30 days". The newsreader went on to say they had a video message from the KKK, and it may be offensive to some viewers.
The TV had my complete attention, My steak and chips pushed aside. A Video appeared on the screen. A sheet wearing good ol' boy, nothing visible but his eye slits, no distinguishing features. He began to speak or more correctly, drawl. He was the stereotypical southern clansman "My fellow Americans, The time for foolish political correctness has come to an end, we now hold the power in our hands", he held up a small sealed test tube, "to demand the removal of the black man from our land. The vile negra has polluted our country and our gene pool for long enough, they take our jobs and have destroyed our way of life. We, the Ku Klux Klan, have developed a genetic weapon that will affect only those of impure blood, if we release it, they will die like rabid dogs, they will fall in the streets, and writhe in agony. BUT we are not a hateful people, and we simply want the black man to go back to his home in Africa, if that is done within 30 days, we will not release our weapon". The video ended at that point.
The news reader said that the KKK had released video of the germ being tested, but the station would not be showing it, as it was very distressing.
As soon as I typed KKK into Google, it came up, top of the list. Distressing was not an adequate description. The victim was obviously behind glass, the date stamp on the video changed by a week from start to end. The victim changed too, from a healthy young black man, to a pitiful creature covered in what were obviously very painful sores. He must have been suffering horribly, as nearing the end of the film he was flinging himself against the glass, smashing into it again and again with no regard for his own safety. Near the end he was shown on the floor, obviously dead. the final seconds of the link showed some more sheet wearing cowardly arseholes, urinating on a burning body.
I thought it was just some kind of empty threat. How could anybody possibly engineer a weapon that would work only on one race. More to the point, how would a bunch of whiskey swilling good ole boys who played dress up in their mums best sheets be able to come up with such a thing?
I said a small prayer in the hopes that the FBI would catch the bastards that tortured that poor man in the video, and tried to push the memory of his suffering from my mind.
The Feds got the KKK lunatic two weeks later.
I saw him on the evening news, a balding man, probably in his mid 50s. His face twisted in hatred as he was marched into the courthouse. He stopped and turned towards the news cameras. I wouldn't have believed it was possible for him to be uglier with a smile, but I guess it wasn't really a smile, more like a silent snarl. He said only two words "you'll see", and turned back toward the court.
Obviously he was not working alone, Black people in the southern states of America began to fall ill about a week later.