- You may be looking for the short story "Virus".
Vrs was the twenty-first short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips and Side Steps. It was written by "Lwrnc Mls", and, uniquely, consisted of only a single seventeen-word sentence fragment, written with consonants only, although "y" was included. It appeared on the very last page of the book, after even the advertisements for Big Finish Productions and BBC Books common to this range.
Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
In 2000, the Cybermen release a computer virus which "destroyed all the vowels". At some later point, this fact is related — still without any vowels.
Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Cybermen release a computer virus that destroys all vowels.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- This is the shortest Doctor Who story in prose form known to the Wiki.
- The second shortest is an untitled short story that was printed on the bleed margin of The Panda Book of Horror, at twenty words long.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- P.R.O.B.E. later eradicated this virus. (PROSE: The Last Dose)