Black Bowels (in French)

Novel written by Thomas "S33k" Letscher

An intense pain paralyzed his neck. He could no longer stand this way of being woken up. This little surgical steel box hidden at the base of the neck under the skin allowed anyone with the access codes to plug into it and issue simple commands to the central and vegetative nervous system, the BCRI they called it, Boîtier Central des Réflexes Involontaires. For three weeks now, the entire West Wing of Warsaw had been roused from their slumber in this way. The city’s leaders had recently begun to fear another Gaian attack. The last one had been destructive, with thousands of deaths. Warsawites gathered in the city’s underground tunnels every time an alert occurred. For public health reasons, access has been simplified and fortified. Genetically sensed doors allowed a continuous flow of people, with the virtual certainty that no non-human foreign bodies could pass through. Humans had all protested at the appearance of such an information-gathering process, hiding behind the most fundamental of individual freedoms, that of protecting genetic source data. But, as always in such cases, the masses eagerly embraced the idea when it proved its effectiveness during the first Gaian attack…