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The Itch of All Time

Tom Ball

     The one-month itch. It was a disease going ‘round that caused parts of your body to become itchy and no amount of scratching could satisfy it. Peoples’ scratchy areas were scratched to the bone. And bleeding occurred but still there was no killing the itch. Bones were exposed and still itchy. They finally traced the itches to a new virus from Luna and were able to treat most people, but then it mutated and soon everyone was itching uncontrollably.
    It was a blood bath, and no one seemed to know what to do.
    Then people were dying from loss of blood and nothing could be done to help the human race. Everyone was infected with the itch which could travel on cyberspace and get into everyone’s computer and hence into their minds and bodies.
    A few went offline permanently but the itch found them through the water supply or even the air they breathed.
     The leaders of countries were holed up in underground sterile bunkers, but the itch was already in their food and tunnelled into their subterranean bases.
    The founders of the itch virus had developed defences against the itch and lived through it and sold the anecdotes, finally the 12 of them were the only humans left standing.
    They decided to make a new World in which all human instincts were eliminated, and everything was cerebral. The dozen survivors vowed to believe in love and imagination and make a fresh start.
    As time passed, the itch virus died out and they could frolic in the free air outside as had been the plan from the beginning. And they all had numerous children immune to the itch and began to rebuild the Earth. They told one another they were free from corruption and madness.
    And if someone was charged with corruption or madness and found guilty, then they would execute them.

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