What happens when civilization invades and rules every aspect of our life? What happens when the greater good justifies the sacrifice of what makes us humans? What happens when those dreams are shattered? They become splinters. Splinters of different possibilities, different worlds. Utopia becomes a dystopia. Salvation becomes apocalypse.ilization invades and rules every aspect of our life? What happens when the greater good justifies the sacrifice of what makes us humans? What happens when those dreams are shattered? They become splinters. Splinters of different possibilities, different worlds. Utopia becomes a dystopia. Salvation becomes apocalypse.
This anthology explores some of those splintered dreams with the help of some of today’s most visionary writers. Jonathan Maberry(Maberry's V Wars coming to Netflix), Timothy Frasier, Johnny Andrews, Joseph and Marisha Cautilli, Druscilla Morgan, Norbert Gora, Pete Aldin, and Jim Avelli will be your guides into the nightmarish, yet fascinating splinters of a dystopian apocalypse.
Our very being is tuned into frequencies that are dimensions beyond the Hertz scale, beyond even Tesla's wildest imagining. It ebbs below our consciousness, teasing us with fragments of words and broken thoughts. At times it's more visceral, like the roar of an electric guitar, manifesting itself in the wonderous deeds of honor or horrendous acts of depravity. Adjust that dial to a different frequency and catapult a lonely dweller of the nether regions from the cacophony of shadows into the arms of angels, or simply transport someone across the street. But God have mercy on the poor, misguided souls who turn that dial all the way to the bottom, where the numbers have faded and the static has died. Down into the dark frequencies. Down to the where the monsters live.
What if the government doesn’t want a cure?
A blinding light in the Southwestern sky changed everything. Nothing worked anymore and all Alexis could do was hope that her boyfriend and fellow scientist Jackson would still head to New Orleans for their week end together.
She couldn’t help thinking the worldwide pockets of viral outbreaks and this were somehow connected. If she and Jackson combined their efforts just maybe they could stop this before it became an epidemic.
But she was stuck on the road alone and it wasn’t long before she realized it was too late; they couldn’t out run a virus. If the world was over run all they could do was to figure out how to survive and keep the uninfected from becoming, mindless, flesh eating monsters. Now there’s something else, a mutation a strain of virus the government doesn’t want to cure and they want Alexis and Jackson to help them harness it. They aren’t about to let that happen.
The world and character building of best-selling author E.L. Loraine with the specialty horror telling skills of Timothy Frasier have combined to make this post apocalyptic world of Pathogen. It’s chilling in an all too believable way.
Timothy Frasier is a novelist, short story writer and poet. His work appears in over thirty horror anthologies by ZPR Publishing, James Ward Kirk Publishing, Horrified Press, Static Movement, Thirteen Press, Knight Watch Press, Full Moon Books, Ivy Media & Press, The Hanson Collective and Dark Media.
He is co-author of the Pathogen novel series with EL Loraine and has released a collection of his short stories titled Dark Frequencies.
Frasier lives in Dixon, Kentucky with his German Shepherd, Chief.