The Peeling: Book 1 (Jeremy's Choice)
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Who is responsible? Who turned me, and most of the free world, into a quivering mass of mutilated flesh?
I wonder if there’s any Jaffa Cakes in the pantry.
Tuesday
It has now been one week since I first noticed the skin under my armpit was peeling away in pus-filled chunks. One week since I realised I was a dead man walking.
Dead man peeling! Ha!
But I am still alive, devoid of nearly all my skin, granted, but alive nonetheless. Moist splatters of pungent flesh litter my home now, whilst foul scabs fall from my body constantly. The only merciful thing about this disease is that I feel nothing.
Nothing except for the soft scraping of insanity inside my fleshless skull.
Wednesday
Today will be my last. I can feel it. My lower legs snapped today when I got out of bed, too rotten and malformed to bear what little weight my frail body has left. It is of no importance however, as I awakened to something wonderful: You have mail.
I am about to drag my withered limbs over to the computer right now, to see what my trusted associate has for me. I will record the email, and my response, for you right here, as I feel it will be important.
Dear Prime Minister.
I sincerely hope that you are keeping well in this time of dire need. Great Britain is within the talons of great turmoil and despair, but I trust that your inspired leadership will see us through as ever. This shall not be the end of our endless empire and the good people of this nation will go on stronger than before. That is our way and always will be. May Angels sit on our shoulders as God guides our souls through the times ahead. Long live Great Britain.
But without further ado, Prime Minister, I will provide you with the Intel you require. It was discovered at 0300 GMT today that the disease is not contained to western nations as first assumed. In fact we now have reliable information that the infection, commonly referred to as ‘The Peeling’, was contracted in Turkey and has quickly spread as far east as Japan. I’m sure you can appreciate, that with the USA also affected, it effectively means the disease has travelled the entire circumference of the world… Yet there is one country that has shown no effects of the illness, despite being surrounded by it on all borders. We have tried to contact that nation’s Government but they have declined all opportunities to reply. It now seems a reasonable assumption that the country in question is responsible for this worldwide plague.
That country is North Korea.
As always, I await you orders on how to proceed, but I implore you to act wisely.
Yours,
General Harvey Whitehead
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Dear Harvey
I was certain it was the Arabs! Guess we can all be wrong sometimes…
Regardless, since my dear Martha and the children were taken from me by this wretched sickness, I have had no time to mourn them, so I regret to inform you that this will be my final act as leader of this nation. I hope that you and your family are well, and remain so. I wish the same for Great Britain.
Without continued procrastination, my orders, in regards to the Godless entity of North Korea, are as follows:
Send the Nukes.
Send them all…
They will not take this world as their own.
Yours regretfully,
Prime Minister Samuel Lloyd Collins
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Contents
BOOK SUMMARY
THE PEELING: Book 1
THE PEELING OF SAMUEL LLOYD COLLINS
PLEA FROM THE AUTHOR
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Copyright