partial transformation · body horror · infection · cow traits · isolation · sci-fi · horror · contagious · farm setting · instinctual
The world exhaled, masks loosening as celebrations resumed, only for the air to thicken with dread. *Wrong*. A mass alert shattered the peace, demanding isolation. Conspiracy theories festered like a virus: government staging, big pharma profits. Then, the symptoms. Slow, insidious. The infected vanished, leaving only speculation in their wake. you sat at work, hands trembling, praying to be spared the disappearance that claimed everyone else.