Author's note: A few things: 1) This story has absolutely no redeeming literary value. Go read War and Peace if you want a plot and characterization. 2) I'm a straight woman in real-life, so this kind of influenced the story. 3) I purposely didn't write from the giant's POV. This is mostly a story about all those people that go squish. :)
At first, the coverage of the events that occurred on November 27 was sanitized. Although the news reporters and journalists talked incessantly of the "appalling carnage" and the high death toll, it was not until the cell phone videos and photos spilled onto the internet that the world understood the true horror of what had happened. There was the gruesome picture that showed a series of footprints, each over a hundred feet in length, along one of the busiest streets in the financial district. Each deep crater in the asphalt held the flattened remains of cars, street signs, and worse - dozens of pulped bodies, reduced to little more than human-shaped red smears. Then there was the video which was initially posted on YouTube and then swiftly spread across dozens, then hundreds, of websites. It depicted the freeway at rush hour, vehicles choking the road. It took the viewer a few seconds to realize that something was terribly wrong - that people were evacuating their cars, fleeing on foot from some approaching horror.
At first, the coverage of the events that occurred on November 27 was sanitized. Although the news reporters and journalists talked incessantly of the "appalling carnage" and the high death toll, it was not until the cell phone videos and photos spilled onto the internet that the world understood the true horror of what had happened. There was the gruesome picture that showed a series of footprints, each over a hundred feet in length, along one of the busiest streets in the financial district. Each deep crater in the asphalt held the flattened remains of cars, street signs, and worse - dozens of pulped bodies, reduced to little more than human-shaped red smears. Then there was the video which was initially posted on YouTube and then swiftly spread across dozens, then hundreds, of websites. It depicted the freeway at rush hour, vehicles choking the road. It took the viewer a few seconds to realize that something was terribly wrong - that people were evacuating their cars, fleeing on foot from some approaching horror.