User:Lomax803

Dale Lavern Whitmire brushed the long, wirey hair of his mullet

back exposing a self inflicted scar on his tanned, leathery neck.

"I'm like a cockroach, he declared. I aint never gonna die!" The men

laughed and continued to eat their meal of cornbread and black-eyed

peas. They heard Dale's roach dissertation many times and were

always humorously entertained by the ironic wisdom of it.

The men, confined to The Dixie Institute For The Insane, lived in a

special area of the hospital; ward zero. Dr. Bubba LaRue, CEO of Dixie

and his brother, General Belvedere LaRue head of covert operations

at the CDC in Atlanta, created ward zero to implement a secret

government project that enhances intelligence.