[Short Story Review] Dress Your Marines in White by Emmy Laybourne

 Dress Your Marines in White
Monument 14 #0.5
Emmy Laybourne
May 22nd 2012
Tor
32 pages
Amazon (free)

 It was just a test report. Like one of many, many he’d written up in the past. Except this time, several of the test subjects are dead…”

At first, Dr. James Cutlass had thought his new job at NORAD was thrilling and full of opportunities, but that was before the demonstration… “Dress Your Marines in White” is the story of the terrifying choices surrounding a chemical weapons demonstration gone horribly wrong.

This story was pretty gross, honestly. It is full of flashbacks, telling of things that have already happened as a scientist writes an experiment report. The experiment itself went terribly, frighteningly awry. Of course, I haven't read Monument 14, and this is more of a explanation of the chemical weapon released in the book.

It was still engrossing. Sometimes I wonder if these scientists who bring about the end of the world realize that is what they are striving for. In this case, they wanted human experimentation because each blood type reacts differently with the compound. The people they used were former Marines, sent to life in prison for some reason. I would really like to know more on that. While the experiment was somewhat contained, it was still intense.

I picked up Monument 14, even if it is just a bunch of kids trying to survive the Apocalypse. I'm curious.\