100 Word Stories

As a joke, the doctors trained one of the monkeys they had nursed back to health to raise the flag over their observation post at dawn and lower it at dusk.

That monkey taught the other monkeys to perform this trick, and pretty soon there were flags all over the research center, raised and lowered by monkeys.

When one of the scientists tried to lower the flag by himself, the monkey bit him.

That scientist is known as Patient Zero in the records.

Not that there's anybody left to read the records.

The monkeys still raise and lower the flags.