The Mecamorphosis By Luke Sey
As Greg awoke that morning from an unsettling dream , he knew he had been transformed . His dream , in which he had been confronted with a sleek but impenetrable black surface and the faint sound of a machine vibrating to a constant rhythm , had disturbed him . Specifically , he was alarmed by the thought that something may have been trying to communicate with him in a language he could not comprehend . But on waking , that confusion had been replaced by a feeling of frightened certainty that he was now one of the Changed . Even without looking in the mirror , he knew his carotid artery and jugular had been replaced . Lying in bed , he ran his thumb and index finger along the skin either side of his trachea and recognised the touch of PVC under his fingertips . Once it began , it would continue unabated . The only uncertainty was what form it would take . The changed were as varied as they were numerous . Their only defining quality was that they had been human , and now they were something else .
Nobody knew what turned people into the Changed . Its initial classification as a disease or virus had been dropped once it was established that it wasn ’ t contagious and there was no trace of it in the bloodstream of the Changed . Greg wondered whether it could be stress that forced the change to manifest itself in people . It was the only thing in his life that he could possibly attribute to this new manifestation . Since they had scrapped Walter , work had become intolerable for Greg and the remainder of the