Zombies in Manhattan

No one would have believed in the first years of the twenty-first century that Manhattan was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.

That first day of the gas we were so blithely unaware. I still feel the terror of the next day when Manhattan had been transformed into a ghetto full of zombies obsessed with material wealth, status and getting a rent controlled apartment. The city was now full of cruelly thin beings whining about their diets, their non-existent sex lives and the angst and ennui of being in Manhattan.