A few of the short short stories I included in Quarantine Monster Shorts were inspired by some of the weirder news stories of 2020 where I gave supernatural/paranormal/ridiculous reasons for them happening. I decided to share a brief explanation of those news stories in case you forgot. Here is the third one. Enjoy!
I was going to think of something witty for the title but there's something so ominous about "mystery seeds" that I gave up.
In July, people all over the world started receiving packages in the mail that were usually labeled as containing jewelry, but actually held some seeds. Most people chalked it up to a one-off mistake and tossed them until a gardener in England asked a gardening group on Facebook about it and then the news exploded around the globe.
The seeds were traced back to China and after Covid tracing back there also, the panic and conspiracy theories ran amuck. People were convinced the seeds were actually bio-weapons to finish what Covid started, or some sort of spy device.
After investigating, the US government concluded that they were just seeds, but advised people to not plant them or throw them away. Rather, they should burn them, but that was primarily to prevent a rash of invasive species from popping up all over.
Was I the only one kind of hoping this was their one chance of growing a whole army of Audrey IIs?
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| Picture from WikiSciFi. |
Look for "Feed Us" in Quarantine Monster Shorts coming October, 2021.
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