The Momentum of Folly

Story: A fledgling CDC virologist ventures into the Guangdong Province of China as part of a World Health Organization influenza reconnaissance field team to search for the upcoming season€™s newest flu virus for vaccine production. While there his team stumbles upon a particularly virulent strain packing a 70% mortality rate in a localized outbreak. While attempting to return from Asia with the isolated virus our protagonist discovers the nascent pandemic is actually the very intentional machinations of a handful of otherwise altruistic scientists who have reluctantly come to the consensus that the only hope to save the Earth's environment and stave-off the extinction of some 40% of its species by mid-century -- and ultimately the extinction of humanity itself -- is to cull the population back down to a sustainable number as quickly as possible. Acknowledging the scientists' reasoning, our protagonist is then faced with the quandary: whether to blow the whistle on the conspiracy i

Robert P. Johnson was born and raised in Oakland, California, then relocated to Lake Tahoe where he ski-bummed, river-guided and swept chimneys before relocating again to "Hollywood." After earning an MFA from UCLA's Department of Film, Theatre and Television, he worked as a screenwriter, winning First Place honors in both the Samuel Goldwyn and Jack Nicholson Screenwriting Awards. He currently lives in Santa Barbara with his wife and two children -- just two.