Woah An Epidemic: A Short Story

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Woah an epidemic broke out. There are people screaming everywhere, the smell of bodily fluids and the soulless bodies lay there having a temperature of 145 degrees Fahrenheit. There was a mass hysteria throughout the whole world. People in shock all around the world, scientists frozen in fear hiding in their labs and testing on other soulless bodies walking around and trying to eat the regular people. People sick everywhere not being able to fix themselves. Most doctors are dead due to all people who came to visit for them to fix the viruses. Now there is no law enforcement, there is no civilization, all that is left are the survivors who are constantly on the run requiring help. At first when the scientist thought they made the vaccine for cancer, …show more content…
I knew this was not going to be a pretty sight and I decided to try and develop a anti-vaccine in my laboratory to undo the effects. I realized after the 13th month that I would not be able to do anything to fix it, more than half the world’s population has been already infected at that point, and I decided to join a faction with my family and friends. As time passed, I have seen some pretty horrifying things. My 10 year old brother’s arm was chewed off and he got infected, we had to KILL him to lessen the pain. I couldn’t handle that. My life was a mess and I worked extra hard to create something to fix it, but my father couldn’t handle seeing him in that much pain. Everyday I wake up I see that clip in my head and I cry about it. I couldn’t do anything but watch. And then we heard the gunshot sound followed by a loud noise that sounded like 50000 people coming toward us. We knew we had to leave. I couldn’t leave my brother laying there so I made him a proper grave and memorial that he deserves. We ran to the cars after that and drove as far as we can, we stopped at one gas station, and like we assumed it was already raided and all the gas has been

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