TAPE RECORDING FULLY DIGITIZED FOR RED LEVEL TOP SECRET SAFEKEEPING
FILE JW-5136 [SUB-LEVEL 7, AREA 51]
“This is medical examiner Dr. Wilson, dated July eleventh, two thousand fifteen, fifteen hundred hours. Specimen has been deceased for three days now and has been identified as Timothy Sloan. The officer who terminated him reported the specimen as a zombie. What nonsense. His skin appears to be… segmented, and an oily brown colour… Sort of like an earthworm. Opening his mouth, his teeth seem to have formed into four extremely elongated teeth, as expected from a prior examination upon the victims’ necks and foreheads.
“This is certainly a confusing… Well, there are no words. This is an anomaly. I’m opening his chest cavity and—Ah! There are… worms? Worms are crawling out of his body! There doesn’t seem to be any organs left in his body. Just… worms. It appears the worms found at the meteorite site infect the host and procreate at an incalculable rate, feeding off its hosts organs and replacing its functions, taking complete control of its host’s body.
“Melony, mark this body specimen number twenty, but separate him from the others. And call the mayor. It appears we’ve discovered a new species not from this planet.”
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THE MEN IN BLACK HAVE BEEN DISPATCHED FOR MEMORY PURGE OF MELONY PARTRIDGE MAYOR OF WOODSTOCK, AND THE CONFISCATION OF INFECTED SPECIMENS. DR. WILSON TO BE DETAINED FOR FUTURE RECRUITMENT.
The Lutheran Column 