After UBC Lockdown: rumors and traffic fever

31Jan08

UBC Campus
All is well today, save for a few police siren disturbances scattered through out the night and in the morning, which we used to associate with Totem fire alarms.
No one was hurt, but everyone is confused. What caused the police action? What is being done about it? Are we safe on campus? What [...]

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Tags: aftermath, Google, marketing, rumors, safety, traffic, UBC

UBC Lockdown

30Jan08

I was in the middle of a lab when a lab technician came in:
“Can I have everyone’s attention? There’s been a police incident and we need to lock you inside the room. No body can leave until further notice.”
We thought he was joking and most of us didn’t even hear him.
“It sounds like I’m kidding, [...]

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Tags: incident, lockdown, panic, police, threat, UBC

The Promise

28Jan08

The man wore a bleached-white coat, which blended in with the clean, bright room that still smelled of some corrosive cleanser. Lack of emotion and the pale lighting made his face both ghostly and solemn. Like a weathered marble statue in a moon-lit garden.
The man moved silently to a long steel table, with scalpel and [...]

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Tags: children, fiction, flash fiction, short story, writing