Horror

Quarantine

I turned on the TV to check if any of the channels

were back up, there was only one channel available

and it was just a pre-recorded broadcasting

message from the BBC, it was urging everyone who

'values their safety' to not be outside after sunset.

It was in effect: a curfew. But it seemed different, it

was an optional curfew. This 'curfew' had been in

place for four days but if you wanted to be out after

sunset it was still your right and you could simply

walk out your door to go to wherever you pleased

and no Police or Army personnel would stop you. I

and everyone I knew didn't have the faintest idea to

what was going on, the internet was not working,

the phone lines were dead and we couldn't get a

signal on any mobile phone throughout this city.

Down at the Nags Head, the local pub. The man

who runs the pub, Bob- said he'd been hearing

troubling stories from lorry drivers stopping by. He

said 'If half the stories I've been told are true then

something very bad is happening, families

disappearing on a regular basis in this county, not

just the city, some say there's something's going

around killing entire families and the army are

simply arriving afterwards to try and capture the

thing and remove any evidence of the deaths as to

not cause panic to the county. Others say the

government has turned into a dictatorship and is

now assuming totalitarian rule. But there's one

thing that all the drivers are saying that seem to

match and that's that the entire county of

Cambridgeshire has been quarantined, nobody can

get in or out without proper authorisation'

'Why would they quarantine us?' I said.

'Who knows, maybe there's a new virus going

around that's originated here and they want to

prevent it spread-no that can't be why, if it was

just a virus then why go through the hassle of

shutting down all the TV and broadband stations,

and that doesn't answer why they don't want us

going outside after nightfall. This is something far

worse unfortunately, I think.'

Three days later, the curfew had been going on for

a week now. I heard screams from my neighbour's

house last night, but I assumed it was just an