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The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories

9.3 Cleanse

The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories

Luke Kondor

Scary Stories, Horror Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction, Nosleep, Fiction, Horror Audio Drama

4.4848 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Cleanse

Written by Matthew Butcher

Narrated by Joseph Maudsley

Edited by Karl Hughes

Music by Chris Zabriskie and Thom Robson

 

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0:00.0

Yes! I just can't believe!

0:02.4

This Christmas, you could be a millionaire.

0:05.2

Get your lotto ticket for tonight's draw.

0:07.0

The National Lottery.

0:07.9

Rules and procedures apply.

0:08.8

Players must be 18 or over.

0:15.8

These aren't the stories your mother told you.

0:18.4

No, these are the other stories.

0:30.7

Clean's. Written by Matt Butcher, narrated by Joseph Maudsley.

0:38.9

Who knew that an abundance of medicine would be the cause of the greatest viral outbreak since the Spanish flu?

0:45.6

An overuse of antibiotics, even for the smallest of viral illnesses, paved the way for the antibiotic-resistant superviruses.

0:53.5

They were only subtle mutations of what had been current vaccinations of the influenza virus.

0:59.0

But these changes had rendered them incurable for enough time to create death tolls in the hundreds of thousands.

1:05.0

This had rocked the first world countries affected as these kinds of numbers were usually only associated with the developing

1:11.3

world, somewhere safely out of sight of mind. Over the subsequent months, various departments

1:18.0

under the umbrella of DEPRA successfully trialed and released vaccinations for all of these deadly

1:23.3

viruses. All except one. American flu, as it had imaginatively been titled, still ran rampant.

1:34.2

Every time an antivirus was released to the public, it had adapted in response, mutating

1:41.1

into something faster acting and more contagious with each change.

1:47.0

Quarantee measures were escalated each time, as though our society was mutating, and soon

1:53.0

those who remained were moved to the overly secure housing which we live in today.

1:58.0

All rooms are hermetically sealed, air is provided solely through the meticulously

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