Newsflesh/Tear Jerker

The Tear Jerker entry for the Newsflesh series.

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• • The 25 days to go entry of Countdown focuses on a sweet moment between Stacy Mason, her son Philip, and the adorable golden retriever from next door. Heart-wrenching knowing what Georgia told us in Feed about Philip, the dogs, and Stacy. Doubly so because Seanan McGuire posted the '25' snippet going into Mother's Day Weekend 2011.
  • T-8 Suzanne Amberlee, grieving for her daugher Amanda, succumbs to the Kellis-Amberlee virus and starts the Denver Outbreak.
  • T-1 Marigold the Golden Retriever is a good dog who doesn't want to be called a bad dog.
  • Georgia's final blog post in Feed. Typing it out in desperation as the virus kills her humanity and her last typed words are keyboard smash gibberish interspersed with her begging her brother to shoot her.
  • Kelly's whispered admission to Shaun that she would have gotten better, meaning Georgia would likely have survived amplification of the virus and not zombified, so Shaun did not necessarily have to shoot her, which causes him even more significant and severe Sanity Slippage.