20150519

Day 380

Something had happened to the cars and nobody quite knew what.
There was this lingering feeling whenever they closed the car doors.
It was like they were burying themselves in metal coffins.
This was always accompanied by a faint smell like morning breath and pork.

It became a countrywide phenomenon and disappeared as quickly as it began.
There are too many strange things around for something so seemingly minor to stick.
Eventually it was blamed on such things as bacteria in the engines, chemicals and such.
Placation soon turned to fear as the strangeness began to change.

What had started as an irritating faint smell, a persisting claustrophobia was only the beginning.
Soon people found that the air would become more humid with condensation streaming down the
windows which was blamed on a particularly hot summer (though the air outside was tepid at best).
Panic was on the rise, as were skin rashes - especially from those with a driving occupation.

The rashes would spread with continued car exposure, whole limbs would just dissolve.
Vehicles were confiscated for testing and the air inside their thin metal hulls was found to be acidic.
It wasn't a naturally occurring acid either, it was more akin to human stomach acid.
Cases as extreme as this were few and far between, the vehicles in question were always seized.

They locked them away in a secured pit, dug so deep but somehow people managed to get in.
You'd see what was left of them through the steel fencing at the top of the cavern, rotting corpses
hanging out of the windows like dogs on hot summer days, trailing gore behind them.
It streaked down the paintwork, mixing with the morning breath/pork car stench like miasma.

Occasionally you could hear screams coming from there as another fool got stuck.
There are a great many sports cars there mingling with the HGVs and taxis, it is tempting.
Not everyone believes that they are dangerous though there are too many bodies in there to refute it.
Makes you wonder how many bodies could fill that hole and how long it will take.

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