The Setting Sun Short Story

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The Setting Sun
The sun beaded its rays against Jimmy's back as he laid on the Caribbean Beach. He must have looked worried because his wife looked over and exasperatedly said “As I said before Jimmy nothing is going to happen to the U.S. The USSR is friends with us and we even became allies with them. If stuff does start to go down NATO will help the world.” As those words came out of her mouth the radio quickly turned on. The time was 1400 as the first bombs dropped. These bombs seemed to have no effect on Europe, though the death rate in Europe has spiked up and 15,000 people are dying every second. Experts are now looking in the shells that were at first thought of as duds. It just so happened that it was a cloudless sky and it was the
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That was exactly the set time he was supposed to call a man who spied on the USSR for him. The spy’s name was Bob. He dialed in Bob’s number and waited for Bob to pick up the phone. RING-RING. RING-RING. RING-RING. Hello? Who is this?
“ Bob it’s me. The guy who posted you in the USSR. I need all the intel you can get me on the S45-GTE bombs. Roger that?”
“Yeah sure. Master Chief Petty Officer ( MCPO ) Froster, I have figured out that there is some kind of disease inside of them that is activated by… I don’t know. Uhhhhhhhh maybe the wind or the clouds. I ‘m not sure anymore. But I can tell you that there is a fast acting disease that will kill you in less than 24 hours inside of the bombs. The USSR has about 5 thousand of them in stock. One bomb can infect a whole area about the size of Alaska.”
“ Alright now that I have that, tell me what they are conveying the bombs with.”
“ Before I tell you what plane the USSR is using, you must know that it is not killing people it is doing something else. DO NOT LISTEN TO THE NEWS. THEY ARE LYING TO YOU! So anyway,the USSR is using the
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There were a couple of fat kids who would not have made it in time, Jimmy pulled his gun out yet again and shot all 4 of them. Jimmy did not know how the gas would fill up the place the size of a school. He knew though, that it would somehow. It was a race against time itself. He ran back outside the freezer and went to the control room. He turned off the lights and set the AC to 20 degrees fahrenheit. He walked back to the freezer to find only bodies on the ground. Their bodies were getting paler, and their hair getting blond. Their eyes became blue like ice. The women’s bodies got curvier hips and lost weight significantly. The men had a more distinct jaw line and got

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