On a first-class flight, Bruce encounters a service dog that’s only slightly less annoying than the woman who owns it. What no one realizes is that, thanks to a monkey bite, the dog is now a vector for a plague that will soon sweep the planet.<br><br>A sexy, young flight attendant named Burk offers to help Bruce home and to stay with him while on break. Burk organizes Bruce’s home for survival as they watch civilization begin to fall apart. Slowly, they collect others in need, including a young transman. When they hear cathedral bells calling the survivors to come together, they all pitch in to help.<br><br>Can love bloom amidst the apocalyptic death and destruction?

Blue Plague: The Great Silence

Burk had been listening. He stood up and struck a pose, a stereotypical, back of the hand to the forehead, eye-rolling thing I hadn’t seen done so well since one of the older queens in New York City, decades ago, had found a run in her stocking. “Oh, my God!” he orated. “You had a bad week? This is the story of my life! My whole life is in ruins, dear child, ruins I say! I left my ten-inch Givenchy platform heels on the plane, for God’s sake! And my Coach purse has been ruined by…” Here he turned to me and looked normal. “What shall I say ruined it? Did I spill some gin in it?”


Fiona was slack-jawed and shaking her head. “Are you making fun of me?”


Burk returned, “Are you assuming I’m straight? The nerve!”


Her face…his face…I had to leave the room, and I did it bent over, holding my side and wheezing.


Chapter 15