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desk. A pile of papers awaited her, autopsy reports and death certificates to fill out.
     
    “Doctor Weiss?”
     
    She looked to the door, where an orderly in green scrubs stood peeking his head inside. “What is it?”
     
    “Just wheeled two more down for you. They're in the morgue.”
     
    “All right, thank you.”
     
    “Sign this please,” the orderly said, entering the office with a clipboard. She signed in the necessary spots on the forms. He ripped off the top copy and gave it to her. “Have a good night.”
     
    “I'll try.”
     
    Lori took off her classes and rubbed the bridge of her nose. A hot headache had settled in behind her eyes and all she could think about was getting away to the Finger Lakes with Mike for the weekend. They had reservations at a hotel/spa, and planned on hitting wineries all over Keuka Lake. No dead bodies. No stink of blood and shit from open abdominal cavities. Just her, Mike, and a ton of great wines.
     
    The orderly strolled off, whistling a tune. She looked at the paperwork. These were patients who'd succumbed to the flu that was flooding the hospital. She could guess the cause of death:fluid in the lungs. This bug was nasty, and paranoia had spread in their little town. The high school and middle school had been closed for the last two days. She actually saw a handful of people walking around with paper dusk masks on. The world was getting crazy.
     
    The families would likely want an autopsy.
     
    She'd have to get someone down here to help her move the newly dead into the cooler. She got up and strolled across the hallway into the morgue. The sheet-covered bodies lay on gurneys. She should've had that orderly help her move them into the drawers. Have to call someone.
     
    One of dead, whose belly jutted out, making the sheet look like a snow mound, twitched. Lori continued to watch. It twitched again. Then a hand dropped from beneath the sheet. Perhaps it was too close to the edge.
     
    She approached the body and found her self gasp as the hand curled into a fist. Uncurled. She stopped. Had someone upstairs messed up? This person wasn't dead.
     
    The person under the sheet reached over and ripped off the covering. Sat up. It was a man with enormous jowls and a fleshy double chin. She gasped. “Sir?”
     
    The man opened his eyes and they were a grey-white. The man shifted his bulk and rolled off the gurney, getting his legs down and steadying himself. A series of gurgles and hisses came from deep in his throat. The hospital gown fell away, revealing folds of flesh and a belly that hung to the man's thighs.
     
    He opened his mouth and drool poured onto his chin.  
     
    “Shit. I'm going to get help.”
     
    He lunged for her, but Lori was quicker, backing away until she bumped into the wall. The door was right next to her and she slipped out as the fat man charged. After slamming the door, she pushed her shoulder against it. From the other side, the fat man banged on the door, a mess of grunts coming from him.
     
    She reached into her lab coat pocket and took out the key for the morgue. Hands shaking, she managed to get it in the lock and turn. The fat man repeatedly slammed into the door. Trying to get at Lori and do God-knows-what to her.
     
    Lori returned to her office and dialed Mike's cell. He picked up on the third ring. “I need help.”
     
    “I'm a little busy hon. My emergency room's torn to hell.”
     
    “One of the stiffs sat up and attacked me.”
     
    “It's happened up here, too. Are you somewhere safe now?”
     
    It unnerved her that he didn't seem shocked. “What?”
     
    “Multiple. The ones with the flu. Turning into some sort of mutants. They're loose in the hospital. Are you okay?”
     
    “Just rattled. I locked him in the morgue.”
     
    From across the hall, heavy thuds continued, although this time it sounded like more than one person. A strangled female voice had joined in chorus with the fat man. Had others woken up? “Mike,