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They were a team of six – two in the surveillance van, two spotters on the roof and two field agents that would go into the building. It was summertime, almost noon in San Francisco, but the air felt cold and wintry. Don Cameron had traveled the world over since this had all started and, everywhere he went, things felt the same – even when it was out, the sunlight was weak and sickly. There was a cold and evil wind that circled the globe, a breeze that seemed to speak of frozen vastnesses beyond the comprehension of men. It brought with it madness and death, driving people to hideous acts of savagery and violence. There was precious little warmth left in the world. Cameron was the field agent in charge and, despite the cold weather, he could feel the cold sweat plastering the shirt to his skin and had to keep wiping his palms on his pants. He missed his family in Ohio, his wife and their two boys. He wondered if he'd ever see them again, if this terror stalking everyone on Earth would ever end. He shook his head and sighed. He inspected his MLA-6 high-capacity gauss rifle, trying to take some comfort from the hunk of steel and plastic that used magnetic linear acceleration to create the most effective and devastating rifle ever created by man. Besides, it seemed to be the only weapon effective against…them. The other team members were green, recent academy graduates who didn't know what they were getting into – but Cameron knew. He'd been at Quantico that day, the day the world started to go to hell. For a few seconds, he screwed his eyes shut. He didn't want those memories anymore, but it was as if some inner perversities made them unreel in his mind like a demented parody of a cheap horror movie.
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It'd been about a year earlier, when the FBI discovered a cache of forty-five egg-shaped, leathery things approximately two feet high stashed in a sub-basement of an old Chicago department store. The FBI agents sent them to Quantico immediately, where a team of scientists brought over from the DoD set up a testing lab in the fifth underground level, the deepest and most reinforced part of the FBI's headquarters. Hell of a lot of good that did, remembered Cameron. He could barely contain his shudders as he remembered… First, he'd heard a deep bass note. It continued for almost thirty seconds, the deepest note he'd ever heard, so strong that Cameron grabbed his head in pain. Cameron's framed Presidential commendation shook uncontrollably, beating out a rat-tat-tat before falling to the ground. The glass frame seemed to explode, but the shards were floating in slow motion as they fell to the ground. The note abruptly ended, followed by a sound like tinfoil being shredded… and then the shockwave hit. In Cameron's mind, a voice was screaming BOMB. He felt the concussive push of an explosion on his chest, sending him flying into the wall. It knocked out the lights immediately, but it didn't go dark. Cameron got up and shook his head, trying to focus his eyes and ignore the ringing in his ears. He opened his office door and ran out into the hallway. He found himself surrounded by a multitude of agents and technicians milling around in confusion, everyone asking what had happened. He'd heard rumors of something strange being tested down on level 5, but they were always doing weird science down there. It took a few seconds before he realized why it wasn't dark. The power was out, there was a thin misting of dust in the air, but the emergency lights weren't on. The walls, the floor,
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chairs, desks, every physical object except for people were starting to barely glow and pulsate with a strange whitish light that seemed to be growing stronger. Suddenly, he saw the floor down the hallway begin to bend upwards, as if a gigantic hand were pushing from below…but it wasn't really the floor, it was more like some sort of bubble of that same whitish light that was rising from the floor. The bubble had a heavy black border and little lightning charges ran through it. Cameron yelled "Hey, watch it!" to the tall man who was next to the bubble, who turned to him just at the moment the bubble had him. Later, Cameron would swear that the bubble had moved towards the other man, almost as if it needed to feed and knew that humans would nourish it. The man opened his mouth to scream but nothing came out, his mouth continuing to open more and more as his body was lifted up, and Cameron could see the mad, helpless terror in the man's eyes as his body stretched and melted into the borders of the bubble. Cameron saw a hand and part of a leg still sticking out, viscera glistening over the black surface of that damned bubble. He fell to his knees and threw up. He heard voices screaming, footsteps running, then a familiar voice yelling for someone to turn on the g-force generator. He looked up in time to see Dr….Salazar, he thought the man's name was, holding some kind of long tube-like device and aiming it at the bubble that continued to rise and grow from the floor. He saw Salazar had a headset on, he was talking to someone…"on three, Atwood, Perkins, on three! Ready…one, two, three!" There was a loud pop, like someone opening a gigantic champagne bottle. The bubble surged forward again but it stopped growing, almost as if it had run into a physical barrier but it didn't retreat. It stayed there, still pulsing and glowing, looking like a malignant negative image
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of a star. Salazar looked down at Cameron. "Are you all right, agent? Are you all right? Did you see what happened to the other agent? How many people are on this floor?" Cameron looked up, his eyes blood-shot and bleary. "Yeah, I'm all right…I saw it, it took him, he was melting over it, I couldn't…" Cameron shuddered and threw up again. He tried to get up but his legs were two pillars of useless jelly that just couldn't hold him. It was more than just shock, though. There was something about being close to that bubble that wouldn't let him think straight, it felt like his brain was being covered in a web of static, everything around him was pulsing with that damned light, bizarre symbols and words were in his brain, weird colors that he'd never smelled before. Cameron moaned, tried to get up and collapsed back to the floor. He felt Salazar grab him under the arms and drag him around the corner. The agent took a deep, ragged breath, trying to control himself. He saw Salazar slump down on the floor next to him. Cameron looked at him and whispered "Thanks…you saved me." Salazar stuck out his right hand. "Dr. Peter Salazar, on loan from DoD." Cameron took his hand, replying "Don Cameron, field agent Grade 7. I know you, you're the whiz kid from DoD's weapons design lab." "Thank God, a Grade 7," said Salazar, ignoring Cameron's comment. "Agent Cameron, listen to me," he continued, "we've lost all contact with everything below level 2 – no phones, no intercom, no radio. You may be the most senior agent left alive down here. I need you to open room 17." "Wha…what the fuck is that thing? Did you see what it did to him? How the hell are we going to stop it, we can't do a damned thing, we, we, we…" Cameron was going into hysterics,
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the pitch of his voice rising until he felt his head snap back from the force of Salazar's slap. Salazar looked him in the eyes, saying "Cameron, take a deep breath and focus! I need you to stay calm! We have to get to room 17 – the prototype extra-dimensional exploration suits for Project Shadowzone are there, we need them to go down to level 5 and see what's going on!" "They started before I got here, I told them to wait, but they were ordered to proceed. We'd detected a strange sort of radiation coming from the eggs, I was following the procedure on a video stream thru my blackberry until Castro and Higgins made the first incision and tried to open the first one. It turned them…inside-out, and then there was that flash, I couldn't see anything but I could hear the screams…the g-force generator the Japanese loaned us won't stop it for much longer, whatever that thing is it'll just keep on growing! Those suits are our only chance to get down there and stop whatever the hell is going on, Cameron, do you understand me?" Shaking, vomit covering the front of his shirt, Cameron got up. A part of him kicked in, the part of him that was cold and efficient and would make him do whatever he had to in order to end this. He grabbed Salazar's sleeve and started running down the hallway, turning left and turning right, deeper and deeper into the underground maze until they reached a gigantic metal door with a retinal scanner and numeric keypad next to it. Cameron put his right eye up to the scanner and punched in the code. With an electronic ping, the door unlocked and swung open. Barely waiting, Cameron and Salazar jumped into the vault known as room 17 and pulled out two of the specially-designed protective prototype suits they needed. They pulled the thick, strangely-colored fabric open and put them on, attaching the special breathing tanks to their
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backs after putting on their helmets. Cameron pointed to the control panel on their sleeves and turned his helmet mike on – "Salazar, can you hear me? Come in, come in!" "Yes, Cameron, I can hear you," the doctor replied. "Good…are you sure these suits will protect us?" The doctor didn't answer for a second. "No, I'm not. We designed these suits for a parallel dimension exploration project but I don't know if anything can protect us from… whatever those things are, Cameron, but we've got to try! We've got to get down to level 5!" With no power, they had to take the stairs. At least, they wouldn't come into direct contact with the bubble until they reached level 4…assuming whatever the thing was, it really was shaped like a bubble. They went down slowly to level 3, and it looked like the sides of the bubble did actually curve. The suits protected them, but just barely. Cameron's head still felt like it was being shot with bolts of static but it was at least manageable and he could still think more or less straight. That sensation of turning into a hysterical chimp he'd had upstairs wasn't completely gone though…he had to fight hard to keep it down. Salazar was following him down the stairs. Cameron turned to look at him. The man's face was pale and Cameron could see his left eyelid twitching. Salazar wasn't faring any better. Cameron's hand went to the door when they reached level 3, but Salazar's voice came thru the mike "No, we have to get to level 5." "But there're hundreds of people on all these floors! We have to help them!"
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"Later! Level 5, we can't save them until we stop this!" Salazar thought Cameron looked like he wanted to slug him. Reluctantly, Cameron kept going down the stairs. Halfway down to level 4 they ran into the border of the bubble. Cameron was terrified. He was trying to stay in control but he could feel wetness trickling down his legs. He knew they both had to get inside that thing to get through it. He held his hands out in front of him as he approached. His fingertips were close enough to brush the edges. Suddenly, he felt his hands being irresistibly pulled forward. It was almost like the bubble was a giant magnet pulling him towards it. His hands penetrated the bubble slowly. He heard Salazar's voice. "Go slow, Cameron." His hands were in up to his wrists…then he felt his entire being sucked into the bubble and turned inside out, his mind felt like it was being stretched in every direction at once, he heard a high-pitched scream that sounded like him, his brain was exploding into bands of colors he could smell and odors he could see, the world turned into an inside-out negative image, then all he could see was a giant golden symbol throbbing in front of him with a life that was retchinducingly horrible and unbearably, shockingly sensuous…and suddenly he was stumbling forward and falling to his knees, he was thru and now he was inside the bubble. Salazar was on the floor next to him, breathing hard with a shocked look in his eyes. They both noticed the light first – it came off stronger from the emergency lights, but it glowed and pulsed from every physical object around them, making everything look like amoebas trying to assume their shapes. Cameron couldn't look at them for long before the waves of nausea started to hit him again. God, it just keeps getting worse and worse, he thought.
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Everyone they found was dead, their bodies in different stages of either turning inside out or melting. Not everyone had died from whatever the hell was being tested, though. A few had survived, but they'd been changed. Some of them didn't even look human. They had attacked each other with whatever they'd found, hacking and slashing and carving strange symbols on their foreheads. They found the lone survivor on level 5 – it was a woman dressed in a white lab coat, the skin of her face hanging down her chin in bloody strips. Her eye sockets were empty, and she held her eyeballs in the palms of her hands where the eye stalks had grown into her wrists. "I can see you" she said to them, her forehead emblazoned with a strange symbol that gave off an eerie golden light. "They see you, too!" she kept screaming at them as they staggered down the hallway away from her. They reached the lab and entered. Cameron and Salazar were in the heart of a nightmare. There was one egg on the main table, with all sorts of wires and meters attached to it. The top flaps were open and the light poured out in liquid-like waves. There was something under the table. It was a mass of molten flesh, metal, and plastic writhing on the floor and making a disgusting whistling, wheezing noise that seemed to keep pace with the strengthening of the light. Cameron turned to Salazar. "What the hell are we doing?" Salazar shook his head, trying to concentrate. "Go to that control panel, there, to your left! See the green button?" "Yeah, I see it!" "Grab the key and stick it into the red slot. We've got to press the button and turn the key to the right at the same time! On my mark…one, two, mark!"
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Salazar then jumped to the panel behind him and turned three knobs in succession. Sobbing, he prayed to God that this would disengage the magnetic dampening field that was keeping the egg open. Cameron was seeing bands of light that he could smell, but Salazar was starting to understand the symbols they'd seen, what they meant, and he started to giggle uncontrollably as he felt his feet soften and liquefy… There was a loud bang as the top flaps of the egg suddenly snapped close. The ground trembled, concrete and dust filled the air as the light strobed intensely for several seconds. Cameron screamed and fell, his brain feeling like a strip of paper being wound and unwound and then it all stopped, the insanity and hysteria of what had just happened replaced by only two sounds: two small pieces of metal pipe swinging from the ceiling and hitting each other and the strange snuffling grunting noise coming from Salazar. Cameron didn't see it until he was next to him. Salazar's legs were gone, they were just a puddle of pulsing molten flesh. The doctor held out his hand to Cameron as he knelt beside him and said "They're…everywhere…don't…let them…hatch…they'll…kill…us all." He convulsively squeezed Cameron's hands and died. Since then, Cameron had been working with thousands of police, military and intelligence agents from every country in the world in a desperate effort to discover what those eggs were, where they came from and who was stashing them in hiding places in every city in the world. He was the only survivor of Quantico. I guess that made me the expert, he thought. Every government in the world had joined in the effort. The threat was real and confirmed, they knew there wasn't much time. After months of investigation, they had tracked down and discovered all the hiding places – only one per city, usually with at least fifty eggs, in
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a sub-basement or any other dark and damp underground place. But there was something else learned from Quantico: whoever was responsible for the eggs had stepped up their efforts after that disaster and that meant Cameron and the rest of the teams could wait no longer. They were set and ready. All the teams around the world were prepared to hit and destroy the eggs in one simultaneous attack. Today, it would all end. [BREAK] It was nice to have a big family. Momma and Daddy had lots of little ones, all wiggling and crawling every which way around the farm. Funny thing, they gave them all the same names: boys were named Ronnie and girls were named Mary. When you've got as many little ones as they had, it's probably just easier to do that. But none of the little ones cared, they were just happy being kids. Every night, Momma would make dinner and afterwards all the little ones would gather around Daddy while he read from The Book. He would read to them for hours about the holy mission they'd been sent on by their elders and what a glorious transformation their victory would bring. Daddy's faith was strong – he always told them their faith must be strong and without doubts because their cause was right and just. Their ways were hard but they had to be because they were the light that would cleanse this world. That had all been a long time ago, though. All the boys and girls were married off, just like their kind had always done. The day came when the youngest Ronnie and Mary were married and left the farm. They were the last ones and everyone cried as they hugged and said goodbye. Momma and Daddy were very old by then, and Mary and Ronnie both knew they'd probably not see them again. Daddy gave Ronnie a copy of The Book so their little ones would
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learn who they were and what their duty was. So with the Lord in their hearts, the youngsters took each other's hand and went walking down that old road to the big city. They lived there for about two years before it was time for them to move on. Mary and Ronnie were married, so it was their duty to be fruitful and multiply. He worked in a car repair place and Mary stayed at home, preparing things for the big day. Poor thing, she knew that she wouldn't walk again after her first birthing but she was strong in her faith. She knew what her duty was. With their family, it always took about a year for the babies to come to term. It'd been some fifteen months after they arrived when Mary's skin started to change and they knew that the blessed day had arrived. Mary and Ronnie fixed up the nesting room with all the stuff their babies would need – the pitchfork and hay, the buckets of ice water, heavy curtains on the windows to blot out the sun, etc. It was raining that night, just like it would for every one of their birthings after that. Mary grunted once, and all her water broke. Whew, thought Ronnie, I didn't think a little thing like my Mary could hold so much liquid! He reached into her folds, pushing aside the tentacles and the birthing slime, and ever so gently he pulled out the first little leathery egg. They laughed and cried when Ronnie showed it to her, and he was so proud of his Mary when she held it in her arms. But Mary wasn't done yet. She kept grunting, and Ronnie kept delivering eggs. That first birthing they had twenty eggs – not bad, but nowhere near the hundred that Daddy said Momma had on their first birthing. They had ten buckets of ice water, so the little ones had to share two to a bucket. Poor Mary, she was so tired at the end that all she could do was look up at
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Ronnie and smile when he cut her throat. It was a tough job, but that's the way it had always been with their family. Ronnie knew she hadn't left him, though. The last egg was always the special one and he knew that his Mary was coming back to him. It took about two days for the last egg to hatch and for Mary to grow up again. He fed her and took care of her and showed her where he was hiding their future children. After the first day, they didn't need water anymore, just darkness. Of course, Mary didn't have legs no more, so Ronnie got her a wheelchair for when they went out. People would pretty much freak out if they saw her tentacles but he always thought they were kind of…sexy, he felt. Ronnie knew that Daddy would call that sinful but he just couldn't help it. Ronnie sat on the ground surrounded by the eggs as he read The Book to them. He read the story of how the Lord had protected their people when the things had pierced the Veil and tried to corrupt their world and how the Lord had commanded them to go forth and multiply until they engulfed the dreadful place the invaders called home. The time came for Ronnie and Mary to leave their children behind and prepare for the next birthing. They hid the eggs under the floorboards of the attic, in the crawlspace, in a corner of the garage, anywhere where they would be safe in the dark. When they were done, Mary and Ronnie held hands and prayed to their Lord to take care of their little ones. The next day, Ronnie quit his job. When he got home, Mary had everything packed and waiting. Ronnie threw their stuff in the car, helped Mary in, and they took off to the next city. It had been some fifty years since their first birthing. They'd been in many cities since then and they'd had birthings in every one of them. Every once in a while, they'd run into one of
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their brothers and sisters and they'd be up all night, just chatting and catching up, bragging about how big their birthings were. Not everything was all right though. Men had discovered the birthing place in Chicago and tried to open up one of the eggs. Ronnie grinned as he thought of what a surprise those government guys got that day. But he and Mary, every Ronnie and Mary around the world, knew they were in danger after that. They had to be alert. The children had to be protected, no matter what. Yeah, it'd been a long time but the wait was coming to an end. The stars were lining up just like The Book said they would and when that day came they were all going to see something nobody had ever seen before. That was the day all their little ones would hatch, every birthing from every one of their brothers and sisters, their Lord would return from the stars and their Eden would begin. Can't you just see it, thought Ronnie, a world filled with our little ones that are just like us, millions and millions of Ronnies and Marys covering the face of the earth and making it all one as they consume it…everything and everyone covered by the love of Ronnie and Mary. The Book said it would be so, and The Book was the truth. Besides, it would be nice to have a big family again. [BREAK] Things weren't going to plan. Cameron wiped the palms of his hands on his pants again and thought Oh God, it's all starting to slip away. It had started about two hours earlier, when Central Control lost contact with the Tokyo team. Each team was equipped with audio/video transmission implants that let Central Control monitor them constantly. Tokyo wasn't transmitting. It had just stopped, two minutes after their team leader reported that they were all
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in position and ready to go. He knew the team leader – Akira Fukunaga had been his roommate at the Academy. Cameron rubbed his forehead and sighed. He couldn't think about what was happening to his friend. Then it was Seoul, Beijing, Hong Kong…one by one, Central Control was losing contact with the strike teams. Within twenty minutes, contact had been lost with every team in Asia and the Middle East. After forty minutes, all of Africa was the same and after an hour Europe fell silent as well. They sent the backup teams in, of course, but it didn't help. Central Control got one report from the backup team in Yemen. They didn't send in any more backups after that. The guys at CC weren't saying, but after a year of working on this Cameron knew that whatever had happened was bad. He recognized the tone in their voices… he'd sounded just like that after Quantico. Hell, he thought, they still don't what the damn things are. The closest thing to an explanation he'd gotten was from a physicist specializing in string-theory dynamics that they were some sort of pan-dimensional chaotic beings who were planning on colonizing and overrunning the planet. Not control it or rule it but overrunning it, replacing all life with theirs. Cameron had gotten the first taste of that at Quantico, and that had just been opening one of the eggs…what would happen if those things actually hatched? The physicist had been part of the Project Shadowzone team. Salazar had mentioned that name, something about exploration of other dimensions. He blinked once and swallowed hard as it all seemed to click into place. Christ, he thought, what if we brought it on… "San Francisco, come in, this is Central Control," he heard in his headset. "AIC Cameron here," he replied, adding "tell me something good, guys."
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"AIC Cameron, stand by please…we're patching you directly to POTUS." The President? Goddamn it, I don't have time for pep talk bullshit, thought Cameron. He heard the deep rumble of a trained actor's voice, the voice of the President of the United States. "AIC Cameron, this is the President. I'm personally monitoring your operation from the White House. Son, I'm not going to lie to you…the situation is grave. Central Control tells me that they've lost contact with every team around the world except for your men in San Francisco and the Seattle team. You few men may be the last hope for life on Earth. I just wanted to say that we're all praying for you…good luck and Godspeed, soldier." "Thank you, sir," he replied as the fear gripped him. If the only ones left were his men and the Seattle team…no, he couldn't think like that. They would succeed, damn it, they had to, they had to! He looked at his watch and saw that it was 11:55 AM. Five minutes until zero hour. He switched the frequency in his helmet and radioed his team to get ready. The surveillance men reported that thermal imaging showed only two in the basement with almost a hundred eggs ready to hatch. The building plans showed that there was a small flight of stairs and a door in the back that went directly into the basement. "That backdoor's mine", said Cameron, "I'll go in there while Mirov and the two spotters come in thru the top basement door." Cameron got out of the van and ran to the back of the house while Mirov and the spotters went in thru the front door. There was the door, with the glass upper half covered with a black garbage bag from the inside…he couldn't see anything! He swore under his breath as he took out his lock pick and tried to spring the lock as quietly as possible. Then he looked up and saw the moon.
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Oh God, he thought, it's getting worse. Now the moon was starting to glow and pulsate, just like he'd seen at Quantico. He could hear screams in the distance, coming from all directions. He barked one word into his mike, "Go!" Cameron kicked the unlocked door open and charged into the basement with his gun drawn…and stopped. The basement was dark, but he could see a shape moving. It smelled bad, like something that'd been left to rot in the sun. The floor was covered with water and he could see the eggs all around him, softly glowing with that inner light. He saw a shape moving toward him. It made a harsh grunting sound and Cameron saw it was a woman. She was grossly corpulent and she was…then he realized it wasn't a woman, only the upper half of her was human and the lower half was a mass of tentacles that whistled as they writhed in the darkness towards him. Then Cameron saw the male step in front of him. For a second Cameron looked at him: he looked like any other kid from Middle America, blonde with freckles, tall and thin, until he saw the eyes. The pupils, he thought, the pupils, what's wrong with them? There were no whites in his eyes, it was all pupil, stretched and distended, pulsing like the light from that damned bubble. Cameron tried to lift his gun but his hands were trembling so badly he couldn't control them. He made a sound that sounded almost like a sob as he vomited. Ronnie saw the government guy kick the door in, saw him charge in and stop as soon as he saw his Mary coming towards him. He picked up a pitchfork and stepped in front of him, smiling. He could see the terror in his eyes. Ronnie felt sorry for him – he would never understand what a wonderful thing they were doing. The government guy looked into Ronnie's
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eyes and was almost able to choke off his scream when Ronnie rammed the pitchfork straight into his belly. Cameron felt the tines of the pitchfork penetrate his stomach. Stupid, stupid, he thought, froze like a rookie, Mirov's gotta hurry. He fell to his knees as the male pulled the pitchfork out of him. Cameron coughed and spat out blood as he fell on his side, still hoping that Mirov and the spotters could stop this. He was on the floor, looking up. He saw and heard Mirov kick the basement door in and saw the three men running down the stairs, guns out and ready. "Cameron!" yelled Mirov, moving towards him, kneeling down…when the male came out from behind some boxes, still smiling. Ronnie looked at the other government guys that were coming down the stairs. That's enough, he thought. He pointed his left arm towards them and yelled out "Urya falangha notue! Urya!" The ground shook as the words Ronnie uttered came like smoke from his mouth and started to take almost physical shape in the darkness of the basement. As the words roiled in the air like oil over water, the darkness spread in waves that deepened to match the darkness that was growing outside…from his spot, Cameron could see out the back door that the sun was setting at midday. Then he heard Mirov and his men scream. The light, that hellish light that had filled Cameron's dreams for the last year, it was extending out from the eggs, like a tentacle that came towards his men, enveloped them, covered them, melted them. They couldn't move, like the hypnotized prey of some vicious carnivore too large and hideous to run from. Cameron shut his eyes tight but he could hear them screaming and begging, their voices blending with the insane
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laughter of the man and woman in the basement, the sounds merging and joining into a cacophonous chorus that welcomed the arrival of a new form of unlife… The last things Cameron's mind registered as the eggs all started to hatch was that there were no stars left in the sky…and the screams in the distance sounded like his voice. THE END
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This time next year it just may be Actress, Playboy Reporter and Daytime Emmy® Host Kira Reed Lorsch. TV Guide Magazine says: "THE BAY is one of the top 10 shows worth watching." Now, with Kira Reed Lorsch on board, it's a must see!
THE BAY is a Daytime Emmy® Nominated, made for web and mobile dramatic series, with over a dozen 20-minute episodes and short format specials about a posh community by the sea. Starring a cast of iconic Daytime and Primetime television stars combined with a cinematic look, THE BAY follows the privileged, yet dysfunctional, Bay City residents whose lives are riddled with lies and scandals that involve forbidden love, blackmail and taboo sex. In its formative years, THE BAY has successfully garnered a strong grassroots fan base.
According to THE BAY's creator, Gregori J. Martin, Kira Reed Lorsch is set to join the third season of the hit series. "Kira's character Jo is like the Madame of the underworld. She is brought in to help clean up the Mayor's (Nicolas Coster, Santa Barbara) mess. I tailor made this part for Kira. She's like Ray Donovan in a dress." Says Kira Reed Lorsch: "It's a dream role come true. I get to be sexy, smart, dangerous and work with the best of Daytime's stars like Matthew Ashford (Days of Our Lives) and Ronn Moss (The Bold and The Beautiful). I believe THE BAY is at the forefront of the future of soaps and it is the best show of the genre -- in any medium."
To kick off the Emmy Weekend, Kira Reed Lorsch will be walking the Red Carpet at the 41st Annual Daytime Creative Arts Emmy® Awards Gala, Friday, June 20th.
Kira Reed Lorsch is an actress, television host, writer, producer and wife of businessman and philanthropist Bob Lorsch. The couple was recently profiled with Jeff Lewis on Bravo's Interior Therapy, "Charity Begins At Home." After graduating from the UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television, she enjoyed a prolific on-camera career, including a 10-year stint as a reporter/writer/producer for Playboy TV. Beyond THE BAY, Kira is currently an entertainment reporter for national syndicator Associated Television International and the spokesperson for MyMedicalRecords.com. Kira spends her time giving back to numerous organizations including The Thalians, where she just chaired the 2014 Gala at House of Blues Sunset strip honoring Smokey Robinson, raising $1 million for UCLA Operation Mend. She is also author of the book SCORE How To Win The Girl of Your Dreams. See more of Kira at RHLGroup.com. Follow Kira on Twitter @KiraReedTweets.
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Flower's Release Highlights the Launch of Spring Fever on PSN
Get your Qore fix along with new Lumines Supernova skins.
Sony is launching a new 'Spring Fever' section on the PlayStation Store this week that will be home to all sorts of content that should help you cope with the bitter cold of winter. What better way to kick things off than the release of Flower ($10)? Complimenting that is the February episode of Qore ($3) -- which comes paired with a complimentary copy of the PS1 Classic Syphon Filter -- and Sony's bi-weekly PSN show Pulse.
On the game content side, Lumines Supernova gets the 'Classic Pack' ($5) adding 20 classic skins from the original Lumines; Disgaea 3 gets new custom characters ($2 each); and Rock Band and Guitar Hero World Tour each get three new songs. Worth noting is the fact that, as of the time of this writing, the promised second demo of MotorStorm Pacific Rift is curiously missing.
A load of videos and themes are also now available, including some premium PSP themes -- which are sadly the most exciting release this week for PSP owners. At least last week's update was substantial.
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Flower is 2 bucks cheaper on the Japanese storePosted: Feb 13, 2009 12:00AM PST by smokey_flea
Buy it there if you already have credits.
Demos?Posted: Feb 13, 2009 12:00AM PST by born.prodigy
Why the hell does Sony constantly release games on psn without offering demos? I would probably buy more games off psn if I were able to try them first. I won't be buying Flower unless I'm able to try it first. I know it's only $10 but I would still like the option to try before I buy.
Honestly....Posted: Feb 13, 2009 12:00AM PST by sixpin
Do most of the people here just need something to complain about? How dare 1up include the prices of games or add-ons that I might actually want to purchase! It ruins the surprise (That's sarcasm for the reading comprehension challenged out there).
And arguing what the most exciting PSP news of the week is? Seriously?
Do us all a favor fellas; go watch Adam Sessler's Soapbox about Killzone 2 reviews.
I know the article is about PSN releases but...Posted: Feb 13, 2009 12:00AM PST by tristessa
...it says "which are sadly the most exciting release this week for PSP owners", which uses language that implies inside and out of PSN. Without doubt the most exciting release this week for PSP owners is LocoRoco 2.
Never...really?Posted: Feb 12, 2009 12:00AM PST by Blastfurnace2k
Never seen anything this blatant? I don't find it suspect in the slightest after visiting 1up for a year+. If you're used to reading the news...you'll find the word play pretty consistent and non-conspiracy theory worthy. I guess it depends on your mindset though. I'm not so paranoid...so I just see this as the usual weekly PSN update news. Watch the news...closely, they tend to play with words. This isn't remotely the first time or awe inspiring/shocking in the slightest. It's basically another day another dollar. I see no suspect UGO influence here.
Dude, I'm just sayingPosted: Feb 12, 2009 12:00AM PST by John-Denver
The flowery language (excuse the pun) that the author uses and the inclusion of prices makes it seem almost like it's a sales pitch. Perhaps they do it for 360 as well, I haven't really noticed. I've been reading this site for a long time and I don't think that I've ever seen anything this blatant. I'm not trying to be conspiratorial, I just find it somewhat suspect, especially given the recent aquisition of 1UP by UGO. On second thought, maybe I am being conspiratorial. Maybe that's why I'm wearing this tin foil hat. Anyhoo, I think that my wife is getting me a PS3 for Valentine's day. If so I will be picking up Flower, Flow, and LBP, all of which look freakin' saweeet!
@ John-DenverPosted: Feb 12, 2009 12:00AM PST by EvilDoer5850
What the hell? Why do some people always have to think there's a conspiracy behind everything? They have news stories like this all the time telling what's coming out for 360 and Wii during the week as well, in fact, much more often 360 than PS3.
Anyway, I'll probably be downloading Flower, it looks pretty cool.
Is this a paid advertisement?Posted: Feb 12, 2009 12:00AM PST by John-Denver
This seems to be more of a thinly veiled advertisement for Sony than a bona fide news story. Did somebody just cut and copy a sony press release and call it news? Alas, I guess someone's gotta pay the bills around there. Might as well be Sony.
NO PS1 games again!Posted: Feb 12, 2009 12:00AM PST by projectrunaway
Lame update expect Flower but kinda thinking of purchasing it. Sadly no demo is available for it. Where are my PS1 games, Sony!
FlowerPosted: Feb 12, 2009 12:00AM PST by SpaceMonkey
I really want this game. The thing I get most excited for on the PSN is classic PS1 games. I'm always sad when there isn't one added.
New GOTY category!Posted: Feb 12, 2009 12:00AM PST by IMTHEONEKILLINU
I propose a new game category for 2009.
"Zen GOTY" and the winner for 2009 is FLOWER!
Whether it's a game or non-game, it's fantastic and I love it.


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U.S. manufacturers ended 2011 with their best month of growth since the late spring. And the struggling construction industry spent more on projects for the third time in four months.
The data bolstered hopes that the economy is gaining momentum and helped Wall Street start 2012 with a bang.
Factories hired more workers in December, saw the most growth in new orders since April and ramped up production. U.S. builders spent more in November on single-family homes, apartments and remodeling projects.
The strong reports correspond with other positive signs for the economy. Consumer confidence is up, unemployment benefit applications have tumbled and the unemployment rate is at a three-and-a-half-year low.
Economists caution that Europe's debt crisis will likely slow global growth in the first half of the year.
But on Tuesday, the outlook was mostly positive.
The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers, said its manufacturing index rose to 53.9 from 52.7 in November. Readings above 50 indicate expansion.
The Commerce Department said spending on construction projects rose 1.2 percent in November. The increase was the largest since a 2.2 percent rise in August.
"The trend for the U.S. economy is most decidedly to the upside," said Dan Greenhaus, an analyst at brokerage firm BTIG LLC in New York.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose by 215 points in midday trading. Broader indexes also climbed. Reports that manufacturing grew in China and India, two of the world's largest economies, also drove markets higher.
U.S manufacturing has expanded for more than two years. Factories were one of the first areas of the economy to start growing after the recession officially ended in June 2009. They faltered over the summer after Japan's March 11 earthquake disrupted auto and electronics supply chains.
The December ISM survey showed many factories have largely recovered from their slump earlier this year
Exports rose despite the trouble in Europe. Growth in new orders means output will likely increase in the coming months. And U.S. factories hired last month at the fastest pace since June, an optimistic sign ahead of Friday's important measure of job growth in December.
"All in all, an upbeat report," said Peter Newland, an economist at Barclays Capital, who noted that the stronger manufacturing activity should contribute to faster economic growth in the October-December quarter.
Construction spending rose 1.2 percent in November to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $807.1 billion. While that's barely half the $1.5 trillion that economists consider healthy, home construction has begun a gradual rebound and likely added to the nation's economic growth in 2011.
Spending jumped 9.5 percent on home improvement projects in November. It rose 1.5 percent on single-family home construction and gained 1.3 percent on apartment building.
"While spending on single-family construction still remains extremely depressed, it has now increased for six straight months and looks consistent with other indicators signaling some improvement in the housing market," said Daniel Silver, an economist with JPMorgan Chase.
The U.S. economy still faces plenty of challenges. Europe is likely already in recession because of its ongoing debt crisis.
A separate survey of European manufacturers released earlier this week found that factory activity shrank last month for the 17 nations that use the euro.
"It is hard to see the U.S. economy strengthening this year when the euro-zone is on the cusp of a potentially severe recession and when growth in Asia is set to slow," said Paul Dales, an economist at Capital Economics.
Consumers could also pull back on spending. That would hurt growth because consumer spending accounts for 70 percent of economic activity.
But for now, Americans are feeling a little better about the economy.
The Conference Board said last week that its consumer confidence index rose in December to the highest level since April.
And the number of people applying for unemployment benefits each week is dropping steadily, evidence that companies are cutting fewer jobs. Weekly applications have dropped by 10 percent in the past three months.
Employers are hiring more workers, too. The economy generated an average of 143,000 net jobs a month from September through November. That's almost double the pace for the previous three months.
The economy likely grew at an annual rate of 3 percent or more in the final three months of this year, analysts say. That would top the 1.8 percent growth rate in the July-September quarter, and the 0.9 percent growth rate in the first half of the year.
Analysts forecast a modest expansion of 2.4 percent in 2012, an Associated Press survey of economists found.
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and Im????? actually crying???
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A semi well thought out wishful thinking Ghostbusters 2 fancast.
Stephanie Beatriz as Dana Barret: renowned Cellist and potential love interest for Jillian Holtzman
Mindy Kaling as Lou Tully: Unappreciated accountant and Dana's neighbor
Gwendoline Christie as Gozer the Gozerian: Interdimensional conqueror/Godess
The film would follow a different plot than the original, obviously. I might write a summary later.
tl;dr: There are some pacing issues and not all of the jokes work for me, but that's par for the course for Ghostbusters movies. It's a fun movie, a funny movie, and I recommend watching it.
Ghostbusters (2016) is loaded with references to the 1984 original, from visual references and injokes to cameos from all of the surviving main cast (with the exception of Rick Moranis, who declined the opportunity), Slimer, and the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. Despite this, the film manages to stand on its own and doesn't make the mistake of retreading the characters and plot of the original. Erin, Abby, Holtzmann, and Patty may have some parallels to the old Ghostbusters, but they're very definitely not simple genderflips. Similarly, the climax is a paranormal apocalypse threatening to destroy New York City, but it's not Gozer the Gozerian and it wasn't brought about by some long-dead Lovecraftian cultist architect.
Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, and Kristen Wiig turn in perfectly fine performances, but I predict that the character everyone's going to be talking about is Kate McKinnon's Holtzmann. She's the quietly competent engineer of the team, building everything from a flaky almost-working proton pack prototype for the first time they confront a ghost to an arsenal of diverse weaponry for the climax. She's quirky, fun, and has a slightly odd approach to the world ("You try saying no to these salty parabolas.")
Sadly, the biggest reasons people will be talking about her are not explicitly acknowledged in the film. Holtzmann is both uniquely individual and a frustratingly blank slate, because none of her backstory and very little of her present story is explored. Based on acting and subtext she's clearly meant to be some flavour of non-heterosexual, but there's enough deniability that she can be read as anything from asexual homoromantic to bisexual to het. Paul Feig has intimated that studio interference prevented him from making her canonically queer, which is a sad thing in 2016. We should have canonically queer characters in our summer action movies, not just queerbaiting.
I also suspect, based mainly on something that happens near the end of the film, that Holtzmann is on the autism spectrum. It's not directly addressed in the text, but the delivery of the lines and the content can very easily be read as supporting this interpretation, as can her (now recontextualised) earlier actions. If it is intended it's an awesome thing to have a kickass female engineer representing a population that doesn't see much positive media portrayal, and if it's not intended I believe we'll see it as a popular headcanon among fans who are themselves on the spectrum.
Minor spoilers below…
Work in progress sketch that started as just an image of Slimer from Ghostbusters and is quickly turning into an image of a few of the characters from the original sitting and watching the reboot. Either that or Slimer and Gozer the Gozerian are dating, but mostly I was trying to fill in the page.
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Real WWII Monuments Men included Wisconsin librarians, archivists
Jesse Boell had never handled documents like this before, at least none secreted in salt mines.
Two years before he returned to Wisconsin to become the archivist at the state Historical Society, Boell was an Army officer stationed in Europe at the end of World War II. He was working to recover documents the Nazis thought were so important they put them in salt mines for safekeeping.
As Boell retrieved the documents, he realized the paper was embedded with salt dust, and it started to curl and shrivel as it was exposed to fresh air.
"It was just nobody thought about that. The salt was just in everything and had been for a long time," said Frank Cook, who succeeded Boell as University of Wisconsin-Madison archivist. "They did the best they could and fairly quickly realized they couldn't work in the fresh air — they had to stay down in the salt mine and take brushes to clean off the documents."
Boell was not in Germany to fight or carry a weapon, he was a Monuments Man. The little-known U.S. Army group called the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section, or MFAA, is now getting the Hollywood treatment in a film starring George Clooney and Matt Damon. "The Monuments Men" opens Friday.
Originally a group of 30 men who were drafted from the ranks of art historians, librarians, archivists and museum directors, the Monuments Men grew to more than 300 men and women who were sent to Europe to search for, restore and repatriate art looted by the Nazis, as well as preserve documents, art and architectural treasures.
Several Monuments Men had ties to Wisconsin: Boell; Gilbert Doane, University of Wisconsin-Madison's director of libraries; Paul Vanderbilt, curator of visual materials at the Wisconsin Historical Society; R. Wayne Hugoboom, a UW-Madison music alumnus; James Reeds, an assistant professor in UW-Milwaukee's English Department in the 1960s; and Kenneth C. Lindsay, who earned three degrees at UW-Madison and became an art history professor on the East Coast.
"How often is it that librarians and archivists get to be the heroes?" said Edward Van Gemert, vice provost for libraries at UW-Madison and university librarian.
Boell and Doane were instrumental in forming the UW-Madison Archives and were the first two archivists for the university. In honor of their careers, a new exhibit is opening Friday at the Memorial Library highlighting work done by the Monuments Men, including items from the Kohler Art Library and the Mills Music Library, along with photos and correspondence from the University Archives.
The exhibit "Our Monuments Men: UW's Role in Rescuing Europe's Treasures" will be on display through Feb. 28.
"We're so used to thinking about people serving in combat but we sort of forget war has other components, that there were all sorts of things going on in addition to combat," said David Null, director of UW-Madison's Archives. "There's been a lot of interest about repatriation of art stolen from Jewish families. So it's interesting to acknowledge that (the Monuments Men) had an important role."
Before World War II, Boell, a Nebraska native, had been state director of the national historical records survey, a WPA project in Wisconsin. He spent much of the war at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., as the assistant director of the War Records Office, handling the preservation of highly classified State Department records. In 1945 he became a Monuments Man, serving as an archives officer in Germany and participating in the Nuremberg Trials.
"The Nazis, not only were they horrible, but they kept everything, too. They were organized thieves — artwork, statuary, documents, records on their government and political activities," said Cook, who worked with Boell from 1962 until Boell retired in 1971 and became UW-Madison archivist before retiring 14 years ago.
Miriam Boegel, who was 6 weeks old when her father left for Germany, recalled her mother saying that he coughed for 18 months when he returned home. Boell eventually recovered and lived until 1991.
The only war story he told his daughter was about the day he passed through a small German community and saw the villagers decked out in elaborate opera costumes.
"They had a local opera that they were very proud of, and before the war they had buried the costumes in a salt mine," said Boegel. "Following the war the people were so poor the costumes were in much better shape than their clothing, so they wore the costumes."
Doane was named director of libraries and the library school at UW-Madison in 1937 and when he wanted to join the war effort, he asked UW president Clarence Dykstra to vouch for his character. In an August 1943 letter to the War Department, Dykstra wrote: "Besides being a librarian, Mr. Doane has given a great deal of attention to the problems of genealogy, identification of manuscripts and the rendering of judgment on such sources."
Doane took a leave of absence the next month and served in the Army until 1945, leaving as a major. When he returned to UW-Madison he helped plan the new Memorial Library, founded the Friends of the University Library and became university archivist from 1956 until retiring in 1962. Under Doane's tenure, UW-Madison libraries doubled their holdings and staff and added multiple special collections. He died in 1980.
Fluent in German, Reeds was one of the few original members of the MFAA, beginning his service under the direction of Lt. Cmdr. George Stout, who is portrayed by Clooney in the movie. As the chief clerk for U.S. forces headquarters in Frankfurt, he responded to tips about artworks and monuments. After the war he earned his master's and doctorate in linguistics and taught at UWM for three years during the '60s. He died in 2012.
Lindsay was drafted into the Army after earning a bachelor's degree in chemistry and math at UW-Madison in 1941. He didn't start out in the military as a Monuments Man, instead serving in signal intelligence in the 3rd Army and later appointed to the MFAA at the Wiesbaden Collecting Point.
It was in Wiesbaden that Lindsay helped uncrate the famous bust of Queen Nefertiti, which had been excavated by a German archaeological team in Egypt in 1912 and brought to Germany. During the war it was evacuated for safekeeping. He later recalled for the Monuments Men website the moment the centuries-old bust was removed from the protective case. "Within an instant, every man in there fell hopelessly in love with her," he said. "That face — absolutely beautiful."
Lindsay returned to UW-Madison after World War II and with a new-found love of art, he earned his master's in art history in 1948 and his doctorate in 1951. He later became an art history professor at colleges in Massachusetts and New York. He died in 2009.
Like many veterans, Boell didn't talk much about the war and quietly returned to his civilian life, becoming a leader in his profession. His daughter thinks he would be delighted and proud to see a movie spotlighting the work done by the Monuments Men.
"I think he would have been pleased because it will bring public recognition to history that a lot of people aren't aware of," said Boegel.
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Rural death: New study shows cities are safer than the country
Robin Monks, "Mozillaman" via flickr
If perception were reality, the most dangerous places to live would be major urban areas, where crimes like homicide are supposedly high.
Perception is not reality.
A new study in the Annals of Emergency Medicine shows that if people are going to die by an injury, they much more likely are in the country.
Sage Meyers, a pediatric emergency medicine physician and the lead author of the study at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, was surprised when she saw the results.
"The media tends to present injury deaths that are more sensational, and people tend to have a more emotional reaction to injuries that are intentional, especially homicide, and therefore hold these closer in their mind," she said. "Here we were able to look at all injury-related deaths together to realize that when you consider 'safety' to be the risk of serious injury to yourself, you are safer in an urban county than outside of an urban county, which tends to be contrary to what people would initially believe."
The study may make people think more about the safety of where they live, but it also may inform how emergency-care resources are allocated and how campaigns to reduced injuries can be targeted more effectively, Meyers said.
Rural death
By analyzing more than a million injury deaths that occurred between 1999 and 2006, the study showed that the risk of injury death was 22 percent higher in the most rural counties than in the most urban counties.
This is looking at all injury deaths together — intentional (such as homicide and suicide) and unintentional (such as motor vehicle crashes, falls and other accidents). But if you compare unintentional injury death to homicide, people are 15 times more likely to die because of an unintentional injury than be murdered. The risk of those unintentional deaths rests heavily in rural areas where the risk of injury death is 40 percent higher than the most urban areas.
"I think that we were struck by how much higher the risk of unintentional injury death was as compared to homicide and suicide," Meyers says. "This really drove our findings, as unintentional injury rates are much higher in rural areas as compared to urban. Any differences in homicide and suicide are dwarfed by the risk of unintentional injury. "
Homicide rates were significantly higher in urban counties, according to the study. The more rural the county, the fewer homicides. Although suicide rates were higher in the most rural counties, the study said the differences were not significant.
The most common way people died from injuries involved automobile crashes. There were 27.61 deaths per 100,000 people in most rural areas and 10.58 per 100,000 in most urban areas.
Part of the reason automobile deaths may be higher in rural areas could be related to higher speeds, increased risk taking, disregarding of traffic laws and longer distances to medical care, the study says.
Initial analysis in the study, however, indicates that access to trauma care has little effect on the numbers of injury deaths.
Other dangers in rural settings include injury deaths by machinery and environmental injuries such as exposure to the elements. One area where rural areas do better than cities is in falls among the elderly. Older people are more likely to fall in cities and get hurt than in rural areas. The study did not look at the possible reasons for this difference.
Unexplained differences
As part of the study, the researchers looked at the differences in how various groups fared in urban versus rural areas.
Rural areas with the most educated people were less safe than rural areas with lower percentages of educated people.
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