Everyone saw it coming, saw something coming. I think even the world tried resisting our imminent fate by trying to distract us. Sevre natural disasters happened more and more frequently. Our response was one of environmental harmony, and yet humanity was still the sole resposnible source for death and destruction around the globe. We kill, or even worse stand by and do nothing as others kill. All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing. That is all that happened, we did nothing. We ignored what was coming and while people say no-one could of expected what transpired, if we had done something it would of been nothing more than an amazing new story for the history books.

It started with Private Moore. Private Edward Abraham Moore. He was on his first deployment to Afghanistan with the US Armed Forces. He disappeared. He reappeared and became patient zero.

Circumstances surrounding Private Moores dissappearance weren't suspicious. It wasn't an everyday occurence, but no-one fretted that it would cause the end of the war, or a start of another. Some in his company thought he just went AWOL, many suspected that the Taliban had kidnapped him. It is still uncertain what happened in his seven weeks off the radar, but he reappeared in Southern Afghanistan with little memory of his time away.

Everyone knew something weird was going on. The initial press releases where that he didnt remember anything. Reports then started to come through that he was kidnapped by the Taliban, his superiors then denied those claims saying that he went AWOL. Nothing added up.

What was clear was that Private Moore was sick. Whenever he was seen he looked pale and gaunt. He was seriously sick with what is now understood was radiation poisoning. His hair was falling out, his lips cracked and raw. How he got radiation poison is all heresay. What was biologically extraordinary was what the radiation caused. Naturally it deteriorated him beyond repair, but it specifically affected his DNA in a way that caused rampant cell regeneration.

This was an amazing development as he started to get better, look better, and his appetite was insatiable. Everything we knew about radiation poisoning was being thrown out the window. I am sure the honcho's in power knew something we didn't. Knew what he was exposed to, or for all we know exposed him to it. What is obvious was they got greedy. The began testing.

Looking back on it we reacted like greedy humans, we saw something powerful, a biologically anomoly, the fountain of youth. As whenever you tempt fate, it backfired. They stupidily tried using an adaptable virus to help spread the mutated pathogens. A child wouldn't of done something as stupid as the powers that were did. It's understood they used the N1H1 virus as a carrier, 'Swine flu'.

It doesn't take much more explanation to predict what happened next. It got out somehow, the government of the United States claimed that it wasn't biological insecurity but a seperate mutation within Private Moore, who had since been released to go back to his family in Phoenix, Arizona. This added up I suppose seeing as the first incidents began to happen throughout Arizona.

The incidents where fairly normal at first, people starting fights at buffets. You could even say they were unrelated, but tracing it backwards now you can see it all adds up. American appetites were always large, but they were grew quickly, and abnormally. Some people where caught slaughtering and eating wild animals, then people where duffing cattle and eating them uncooked. People thought it was a cult, or some strange religious group, or Gothic youths.

It started happening across Texas, and a few incidents in Los Angeles give indication it spread that way too. It seemed to stay out of the major cities, happening fairly frequently in rural areas, but that probably was just how it appeared as less happened in rural areas.

It had been a few years since Private Moore returned home and at least 12 months since he had been in the spotlight. He catapulted back into the spotlight when he formed what I guess is considered a gang and kidnapped three children from outside a local school.

They were slaughtered, mercilessly, brutally efficient, and they were eaten. Moores gang was emotionless. They didn't try to flee, they just continued on their lives until they were apprehended a few days later. They showed no remorse, and physcolgical tests showed they were classifed as mentally unstable and detached from their actions.

The case never eventuated for it was like the opening of the flood gates within a fortnight 9 other incidents of cannibalism occured in Phoenix alone. Within a few months the entire South-West was being ravaged by effects of cannibalism.

People were filled with fear, paranoid. Violence and rioting began occuring across America. Reports filtered through that similar scenarios where happening throughout Central America, South America, even Asia and Europe. Businesses started to shutdown, marshall law was being declared in most States and an effort to try and withdraw troops from foreign soil were being stepped up.

It never eventuated. American Society as we know it collapsed. The government was overrun or went into hiding. They started on a cure for the virus, but they never were even able to develop a test for what was known as the 'cannibal virus'.

It was the Apocalypse. I had dreamed of things like this my entire life, and enjoyed them. I would give anything to go back to yesterday. Hell I would give anything to go back to home.

My name is James Carlyle. I am chef with the Australian Armed Forces in Afghanaistan. I am an uninfected survivor of what we dub the 'Zompocolypse'. Our outfit is still in Afghanistan and besides the lack of contact with the outside world, its like nothing ever happened. Our 8 month tour is up and we just want to go home.