A strange virus infects the Earth, in the distant future, rendering all who catch the disease laden with long, vertical and tubular dark sores over their abdomens rising to their very throats—principally all women across the globe. Miraculously, a team of African scientists in the Congo have found a cure, but will they inject the “cure” all the infected females need, in time, all over the world? To stop the prolongued language degeneration that ensues from long exposure to the disease?—a symptom that makes everyone pronounce the stem “th” as “f?” A “speculation” novel. Forthcoming to ABH Illustration.