brett@hp-lsd.UUCP (02/24/84)
I am trying to find a short sci-fi story I read some 10 years ago. It wasn't from a book. I think it might have been copied out of a magazine. Any help with the title , source, or where I might find it would be greatly appreciated. Basically, it is a doomsday-survival story. The cause of the story is that world wide pollution has become so bad that it has become deadly. Some sort of a cloud of very concentrated pollutants forms and begins to move across the surface of the earth killing most everything in its path. The only hope is that it will rain, thus washing enough of the stuff to earth to stop the cloud, (I don't think it ever did). I can vaguely remember two scenes from the story. One involves a woman who is getting ready for work in the morning, and suddenly notices that her synthetic nightgown is disintegrating right off her. The second scene is about a man (returning from the army?) who arrives home in his air conditioned car. When he gets out, the pollution causes him to start choking. He sticks two cigarette filters up his nose (not intended to be funny) and goes into the house to find his whole family dead among the welcome home party trimmings. There were several other scenes in the story, but I can't remember any of them. Thanks in advance for any help. Brett (I'd rather be in S.L.O.) Carver ...!ihnp4!hpfcla!hp-lsd!brett Hewlett-Packard ...!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-lsd!brett Colorado Springs ...!decvax!teklabs!ogcvax!hp-pcd!hp-lsd!brett (303) 590-2125