World War T is a series of independent, vaguely interconnected stories about different tentacle monsters invading Earth, very much an erotic homage to World War Z. These short stories do not need to be read sequentially.
"I don't even see why you want this," the nervous man said. "It certainly doesn't prove anything."
He adjusted the brim of his hat as he nervously looked around the park.
"One source never proves anything," the reporter said. "But it may collaborate with what I already know."
"It's not safe to publish," the man said, leaving the contents of the plain manilla envelope on the park bench between them.
"It never is."
"Chester, I'm serious, the campus, it's not the same, they've... " the man started to babble, the horror of what was happening threatening to spill out in an untoward confession.
It was neither the time nor place for his mental breakdown.
"I know, but you've done your part," Chester said, placing his hand on him. "What we agreed upon is my suitcase. Take it and don't look back."
"Chester..."
"We don't have time," Chester said, grabbing the envelope and leaving the informant with the money and the airplane ticket.
He didn't go home.
Chester found the nearest hotel, his cell phone long abandoned as a security risk. He paid for the seedy room with cash, pouring over the scattered contents of the stolen lab reports.
Current research at CalTech Autonomous Research Center is focused on the development of lifelike humanoid...
Jargon, Chester thought, skimming ahead.
Subject is a 28-year-old female, blonde hair, blue eyes...
Huh, they even included her measurements. Chester wasn't an expert in women's clothes, but the girl appeared to be a knockout. Hot blonde, big tits, typical California girl. He skimmed past the preliminary write-up of the experiment, knowing what to look for.
Lab Report 2/14/2019. Subject 732 "Alice". Robotic Adaptation Mark III
Successful test of the artificial penis. The subject accepted the substitution of a mechanical appendage without a psychological differentiation between it and organic material. The hydraulic motors operated successfully for nearly an hour before needing to recharge. However, although the subject never objected to the continual insertion of Mark III into her vaginal canal, the issue of internal lubrication needs to be addressed by the engineers.
However, the stimulation test remains successful.
Journal 2/15/2019 - Dr. Christine Preston
I don't know what they've done to this poor girl. Maybe they are paying her more than me to stay on campus. All of us working on the project are cut-off from the rest of the world, and even each other. But she remains polite, cheerfully, even excited about what they are going to do to her.
Actually, if I didn't know better, I would say she seems like an ordinary graduate student - okay a little too much of a Barbie-type to be in one of my upper-level classes...
But no one deserves to be experimented on like this.