Nyandemic Story, pt. 19
I woke with a start. The light streaming in from the window was all wrong; it must've been nearly 10:00 by the look of it. It was Wednesday, wasn't it? _Shit,_ I must've slept through my— Oh right, I didn't have work today, either; I was out sick...
Nyandemic Story, pt. 18
It was well into the evening when hunger finally forced me out of the blood-trance. Normally, I could go for most of a day on coffee and the occasional light snack, if I remained sedentary and didn't let myself get too worked up;° but I was still...
Nyandemic Story, pt. 12
## 6. Who Goes There? _Nothing._ I shut the fridge. _Damnation._ I'd woken up _ravenously_ hungry, for some reason; it took three bagels and copious quantities of _schmear_ just to stave it off enough for me to get...
Nyandemic Story, pt. 9
"Hi, how're you doing!" the clerk chanted as I entered the hardware store. "Can I help you find anything?" It took me a moment to process - not that this was confusing, but after weeks of barely any social interaction even...
Nyandemic Story, pt. 7
"Of course, this'd be strictly voluntary," Bryce was saying. "It's important that we meet our commitments to our clients, but I want you guys to know that I'm-" "-going to prioritize that over our own well-being." The audio glitched briefly; I...
Nyandemic Story, pt. 6
_Not yet, damn it..._ My fingers twitched across the keyboard, refreshing the page yet again. Online tracking is a wonderful, convenient thing, but well has it been said that it also makes you crazy; turns out this is doubly true if...
Nyandemic Story, pt. 5
## 3. Antisocial Distancing I was _not_ happy. "Okay, what's it doing _now?_" I asked, suppressing a groan. Why did these things always crop up at the worst possible time? Bad enough to have someone's computer stuck in an endless...
Nyandemic Story, pt. 4
I locked the door behind me and heaved a sigh as I _finally_ set the groceries onto the counter. Between the nightmare Nicole had conjured living rent-free in my brain and Parker's insistence on getting within coughing distance, I was now a...
Nyandemic Story, pt. 3
Well. _That_ conversation was going to be rattling around in my brain for the rest of the day/week/month; but at least it was over with. I hoisted the groceries back up from where I'd let my arm sag to and prepared to _finally_ go...
Nyandemic Story, pt. 26
After sitting idle for a fortnight, the Bug coughed blue smoke at ignition, and it kept wanting to stall at stop signs for the first few minutes – but at last, I was off. Curiously, however, I found myself turning the other way onto the main road;...
Nyandemic Story, pt. 1
## 1. The Cat Who Walked By Himself I still remember the day the virus was reported to have made landfall in the States. We were forty minutes into a fifteen-minute meeting, with no sign of rescue. "We _really_ need to get these BPAs...
Nyandemic Story, pt. 22
I hunched forward, tail lashing moodily, and heaved an aggravated sigh. It was a little later in the morning. I'd gotten as far as bagging up my laundry, then got stuck in a loop, alternating between pacing around the living room, trying to figure...