Flame Alphabet

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The speech of children has mutated into a virus which is killing their parents. At first it only affects Jews then everyone. Sam & Claire's lives are threatened when their daughter Esther becomes lethal. Each word she speaks is toxic to Sam & Claire. Radio transmissions from strange sources indicate that adults across the country are growing increasingly alarmed. All around parents wither beneath the powerful screams of their children. Claire is already stricken & near death. As the contagion spreads Sam & Claire must leave Esther behind in order to survive. On fleeing Sam finds himself in a government laboratory where a group of scientists are conducting horrific tests hoping to create non-lethal speech. What follows is a nightmarish vision of a world which is both completely alien & frighteningly familiar as Sam presses on alone into a society whose boundaries are dissolving. Both morally engaged & wickedly entertaining The Flame Alphabet asks the question: what is left of civilization when we lose the ability to communicate with those we love?