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TNW – Day 56

July 14, 2017Fiction, Horror, HZV, The Nudist War, ZombiesAngels, Angels of Death, Black Hawk, Brian, Cass, Cassandra, cremation, Dead Eye, Eddy, Edmond, Edward, Erika, Felicia, helipad, incendiary, Jess, Kwan, leeches, MAN, Marcy, Moma Cass, naked, nudist, Scholes International Airport, Z, Zombiecb

This is the sixteenth chapter.
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The Nudist War – Day 56

In the long run, we are all dead.

~ John Maynard Keynes, 1923

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Sleep. Sweet delicious sleep. Warm, safe, clarity regenerating sleep. In 2013, researchers determined that sleep is critical for flushing neurotoxins and other metabolic waste from the brain and spinal column. These toxins accumulate during the day as a result of normal brain and neurological processes. If not flushed away every night they begin to poison the brain, inhibiting clear thought, reasoning, and memory. This more than anything else explains the importance and the necessity of getting a quality night’s sleep.

The new and amazing part of this was the discovery that nerves, the spinal column, and the brain shrink in size during sleep and re-expand during wakefulness. It is this expansion and contraction cycle of wake and sleep that flushes the cerebrospinal fluid through the brain and spine, carrying away toxins and metabolic waste. Anyone who has been awake over twenty-four hours doesn’t need the results of clinical studies to know that sleep is necessary for clear thinking.

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TNW – Day 55

May 18, 2014Fiction, Horror, HZV, The Nudist War, ZombiesAngels, Angels of Death, Brian, Cass, Cassandra, chopper, cremation, Dead Eye, Eddy, Edmond, Edward, Erika, Felicia, helicopter, helo, incendiary, Jess, Kwan, leeches, MAN, Marcy, Moma Cass, naked, nudist, nudist colony, Z, Z Hive, Zombiecb

This is the fifteenth chapter.
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The Nudist War – Day 55

Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

~ J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoting from the Bhagavad Gita after witnessing the first atomic bomb detonation, 1945

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“Mnnn … get off me … unh … Get OFF me you bitch … unh … my thumb … my thumb … mmm … no … NO … NO”

“Wake up Erika. You’re dreaming,” Cassandra gently shook Erika. “You’re safe. You’re in the hospital.”

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TNW – Day 54

May 11, 2014Fiction, Horror, HZV, The Nudist War, ZombiesAngels, Angels of Death, Black Hawk, Brian, Cass, Cassandra, Dead Eye, Eddy, Edmond, Edward, Erika, incendiary, Jess, Kwan, Mama Cass, MAN, naked, nudist, nudist colony, Z, Z Hive, Zombiecb

This is the fourteenth chapter.
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The Nudist War – Day 54

His wings are gray and trailing,
Azrael, Angel of Death.
And yet the souls that Azrael brings
Across the dark and cold,
Look up beneath those folded wings,
And find them lined with gold.

~ Robert Gilbert Welsh, Azrael, 1917

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Day Two of Operation “Clean Sweep” was proceeding so far without incident. In a repeat of the previous day, the garage and surrounding streets had been swept again and the fourth building in clockwise rotation had been secured without incident. White Team had moved to the fifth building as the technicians wired the fourth building with cameras and motion sensors.

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TNW – Day 53

May 4, 2014Fiction, Horror, HZV, The Nudist War, ZombiesAngels, Angels of Death, Brian, CDC, Cindy, dream, Eddy, Edmund, Edward, Galveston, HZV, Jess, Kwan, Maggie, MAN, Maxine, naked, night-vision, nudist, running, Tom, UPS, Wolf, zombies, Zscb

This is the thirteenth chapter.
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The Nudist War – Day 53

The troops, with one exception, consisted of five mixed-gender squads of ten soldiers each. White Team was the exception, consisting of only six elite soldiers all of whom were women. The White Team elite were popularly known as the ‘Angels of Death’. In the war against the Zs, they had seen more combat and scored more nudist kills than the other squads combined.

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MAN handed the coffee cup to the Lieutant Colonel. “So Kwan, tell me about the Angels of Death.”

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TNW – Day 45

March 9, 2014Fiction, Horror, HZV, The Nudist War, ZombiesAtlanta, Cindy, Eddy, Edmund, Edward, firearms, Galveston, H17N10, HZV, Jess, MAN, Mars, Maxine, naked, nudist, running, shotgun, Tom, Wolf, zombies, Zscb

This is the fifth chapter.
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The Nudist War – Day 45

And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

~ Genesis 2:25, King James Bible

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Jess awoke to the sound of thunder. She opened her eyes and turned to look at the alarm clock. It’s luminous face showed 6:30 AM. She reached over to her laptop and brought up one of the outside security cameras. The video and audio indicated that it was raining heavily. “At least the weather is still normal,” she thought before turning off her alarm, rolling over, and going back to sleep.

In the next room Eddy was snoring heavily. When he got back to the lab the night before, they both agreed they desperately needed a good night’s sleep. After several medicinal scotches, they both retired for the night. The DNA sequencing could wait, besides they were making no progress anyway. A good night’s sleep was the least they were due.

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TNW – Day 44

March 2, 2014Fiction, Horror, HZV, The Nudist War, Zombiesalcohol, ATF, awakening, CDC, Eddy, Edmund, Edward, firearms, Galveston, H17N10, HZV, Ibuprofen, Interferon, Jess, Level 4, MAN, MS, Multiple Sclerosis, naked, nudist, Ondansetron, running, Seaside, shotgun, tobacco, who, World Health Organization, Zürich, zombies, Zscb

This is the fourth chapter.
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The Nudist War – Day 44

He rounded the corner only to see Jess on the ground, covered in blood … As Eddy moved toward Jess, a crazed naked woman came running around the corner and lunged at him. Eddy didn’t wait for introductions. He unloaded two shotgun rounds into her, but she kept coming. A third shot to the face dropped her at his feet.

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“Urrrrargghh glurrrppp … urrrrargghh wrrraccch.” The sound of vomiting came from the behind the restroom door.

“You okay in there?” Eddy asked. It was 4:00 AM. Dr. Edmund Hillary had been up since midnight after getting a much needed six hour nap. He had just come out of the lab to get some coffee and empty his bladder (not necessarily in that order).

“Urrrrargghh … yeah … urrrrargghh.” A few minutes later Jessica emerged wiping her face with a wet towel. “Need more Ondansetron.” she muttered and staggered over to the medicine cabinet. “May as well take more Ibuprofen while I’m here.” She opened both bottles taking a pill from each and washing them down with a swig from a freshly opened water bottle. “I’m going back to bed,” she muttered and headed back to her cot. Eddy was used to this by now. The main side effect of the Interferon was nausea and vomiting, hence the Ondansetron.

“External power is back up,” he said. … No reply … “I’ll tell her later,” he thought.

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TNW – Day 43

February 23, 2014Fiction, Horror, HZV, The Nudist War, ZombiesApocalypse, Atlanta, CDC, CT scan, DNA, Eddy, Edmund, Edward, floater, Galveston, H17N10, HZV, Ibuprofen, Interferon, Jess, Level 4, lumbar puncture, MRI, MS, Multiple Sclerosis, Ondansetron, optic neuritis, Zombie Apocalypse, zombies, Zscb

This is the third chapter.
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The Nudist War – Day 43

A novel influenza virus has been discovered in several bats from Guatemala. This virus is highly divergent in sequence from other known influenza A viruses, and has thereby designated as a new influenza subtype of H17N10. Nothing is known about the capability of H17N10 to cause human infections or its putative pandemic potential.

~ Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, February 2012

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The room slowly came into focus. Jessica rolled over on the cot and hit the intercom button. “How long have I been asleep?” Silence. Once again, louder and with more authority. “Yo! … Edward! … How long have I been asleep?”

“Hold your horses! I’m starting another run,” replied a voice through the speaker, “… and how many times do I have to tell you? … It’s EDMUND, not Edward!” Pause. “You’ve been asleep just over twenty-four hours.”

“Thanks, Eddy.” Jess rolled onto her back and stared up at the ceiling. She knew well and true that his name was Edmund, but she loved pushing his buttons. Calling him Edward was a sure way to do it. This had been going on ever since Edmund joined her team two months ago, not long before the first reported case of HZV. Back then she had a team of over two dozen scientists and technicians working under her. Now it was just the two of them rattling around in the empty complex.

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