Short stories tagged with Virus

Listing 7 stories.

A deadly virus, created as an act of biological warfare, has swept the Western world, killing the majority of its citizens. When a lonely, naturally immune woman spots another survivor, she pursues him, albeit with unforeseen, tragic consequences.

When a mysterious deadly plague descends on the earth, four friends are engaged in a life-or-death struggle against an alien race attempting to fumigate the earth.

A genetically modified mermaid works to solve the circumstances surrounding a scholar's mysterious disappearance, all the while reconciling with the meaning of death in a futuristic world where bodies can respawn in any imaginable form.

In a post-apocalyptic, futuristic city, a disabled cab driver gets recruited to help take down a terrorist cult led by "The Green Man."

Two aliens recreate a human from a discovered code five million years after the end of the human race.

There has been a rise in men killing women in the modern-day world. Scientists desperately try to understand why this phenomenon is occurring and must do everything in their power to stop this before all of humanity becomes extinct.

A virus and bacteria-ridden world forces humanity into virtual reality where human touch is but a simulation. When a scientist researching potential reentry encounters the pleasure of real human touch for the first time since her birth, she grapples with the limitations of the seemingly perfect yet largely empty life she has been given.