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Containment: A Short Story
Marberg UV1, a security level four pathogen so deadly it is kept at a top secret location under the highest security measures. After the original disease mutated in primates, nobody knows what to expect if it was to infect a human host.
Jennifer Reid, an isolated scientist in charge of the Siberian Satellite Laboratory for Germ Warfare is told that she must destroy the final samples. But that means returning home after nine months of isolation and becoming the person she used to be. It is something that Reid is not ready to face.
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Jennifer Reid, an isolated scientist in charge of the Siberian Satellite Laboratory for Germ Warfare is told that she must destroy the final samples. But that means returning home after nine months of isolation and becoming the person she used to be. It is something that Reid is not ready to face.
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42 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 15, 2014
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About the author
Michelle Muckley
13 books62 followersI was born in the town of Warwick in 1981. It is a small historical town in the heart of England, and Ι was the fifth child born into a family of boys. I developed a huge interest in the written world from a young age, and with more than a little help from Roald Dahl found quite the taste for anything gross and gory. Book club at primary school only proved to increase my love of escaping into the world of a book. Whilst six years at secondary school did little to quell the romantic notion of one day sitting in my mountain cabin and smoking a celebratory cigarette as the first novel was born, somewhere within those six years the dream of becoming a writer got put on hold. Still resting quietly in the background were those long and lingering desires to once again rediscover those old aspirations to write.
About six years ago, with the smouldering embers of a childhood dream sparking uncomfortably underfoot there was what can only be called an epiphany. Who is it that actually becomes a writer? It's the people who write. It's the people who actually do more than say, 'I have a dream'. Whilst this may sound simplistic, it was the revelation I needed to sit down and type Chapter One. The first book, The Loss of Deference was no longer just a fantasy and slowly became a workable manuscript. It was then sent out in eagerness before it was properly edited and therefore it was duly returned, and along with it I collected a nice set of standard rejection letters. Six years later, having uprooted from England to settle on the southern Mediterranean shores of Cyprus, the dream to publish the book once deemed nothing more than a pipe dream is now a reality. I am still working as a part time scientist, but I am also writing daily. When I am not sat at the computer typing about the darker side of life, you will find me hiking in the mountains, drinking frappe at the beach, or talking to myself in the kitchen in the style of an American celebrity chef. Just think Ina Garten.
What people saying about The Loss of Deference.
"The final few chapters as the novel races to its finish is a white-knuckle ride, and more than once I wanted to close my eyes so that I might not see what I was sure was coming."
"Michelle Muckley created a believable dystopian world inhabited by intriguing characters"
"I can't wait to read more from this talented new writer."
"An imaginative, clever and thought provoking book which had me hooked from the first chapter."
About six years ago, with the smouldering embers of a childhood dream sparking uncomfortably underfoot there was what can only be called an epiphany. Who is it that actually becomes a writer? It's the people who write. It's the people who actually do more than say, 'I have a dream'. Whilst this may sound simplistic, it was the revelation I needed to sit down and type Chapter One. The first book, The Loss of Deference was no longer just a fantasy and slowly became a workable manuscript. It was then sent out in eagerness before it was properly edited and therefore it was duly returned, and along with it I collected a nice set of standard rejection letters. Six years later, having uprooted from England to settle on the southern Mediterranean shores of Cyprus, the dream to publish the book once deemed nothing more than a pipe dream is now a reality. I am still working as a part time scientist, but I am also writing daily. When I am not sat at the computer typing about the darker side of life, you will find me hiking in the mountains, drinking frappe at the beach, or talking to myself in the kitchen in the style of an American celebrity chef. Just think Ina Garten.
What people saying about The Loss of Deference.
"The final few chapters as the novel races to its finish is a white-knuckle ride, and more than once I wanted to close my eyes so that I might not see what I was sure was coming."
"Michelle Muckley created a believable dystopian world inhabited by intriguing characters"
"I can't wait to read more from this talented new writer."
"An imaginative, clever and thought provoking book which had me hooked from the first chapter."
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January 28, 2015
excellent short story.. a bit jumping back and forth but understood the reason why at the end of the book.
Too bad it was only a short story:-(
~~R
Too bad it was only a short story:-(
~~R
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