Written c. 2004.

“This is our correspondent in Africa, Larry Fisher, with reports of increased attacks by Kenyan rebels on villages."

“Hello, this is Larry Fisher. The rebels have attacked this village of-” A loud rumbling, sound emanating. from the distance and increasing in velocity by the second interrupted Larry's words. "As I was saying-" Larry paused again and whispered something inaudibly to the camera man and looked behind him in the direction of the noise. A large cloud of dust was coming towards them.

“It seems that something is charging towards us." The camera man zoomed in as Larry continued to squint at it, “It looks like a pack of elephants!" he said, in a tone of amazement. He no longer seemed to be speaking to the camera but more to himself. As the cloud grew nearer, it was now obvious to everyone that it was a herd of elephants. Some of the villagers started to run as others ran into their houses and came out with guns.

Larry started speaking in a high-pitched, hysterical tone of voice. "They’re charging us! They, they really are charging us! There are hundreds of them!” The villagers opened fire on them. Two elephants went down. The villagers dropped their guns and ran. So did the camera man. Larry didn't run. He stood there petrified with the camera still rolling behind him. Then the elephants hit.

Back at the CNN news station, Laura Cunningham stared at what she had just seen on the monitor, as did everyone else in the station. As she sat there gaping at the screen, a news flash came in from the U.K. about unexplained animal attacks in Scotland and the English country side and approaching London. Another one from France described the same type of attacks and, somewhat simultaneously, similar reports started coming in from all around the world. All the attacks seemed to involve animals of all types, domestic and wild, moving in packs, and killing any human in sight. More reports came in of planes and helicopters crashing everywhere and found with the carcasses of birds who had smashed through the windshields.

Suddenly they started hearing screams outside. Everybody jumped up and started staring out of the huge window of the news room. It was utter chaos on the streets. Pigeons were swooping down and attacking people, dogs were biting and jumping up on anybody in sight, and the horses, who usually drew the tourist curriages, were rearing and stomping on everybody. Rats were swarming up from the grates of the subway and biting the terrified people.

Another news flash came: "The animals of the Bronx Central Park Zoo have escaped and are rampaging through the streets of New York."

While everybody in the news room was looking out of the window and listening to the news flash, out of nowhere a massive swarm of pigeons smashed right through the window and started attacking everybody. Their screams were swallowed up by the yells of the people of the lower floors of the building, who were being attacked by the animals who had broken through the door.

The cameras went off in CNN, as did all the cameras around the world.