| THE CURE.....PG 1....This one was a story I read long ago on the Web. I didn't care for the ending, so when I sat down to make it rhyme for "the Porch" I gave it a different ending...hope you like it!! As always, comments welcome!! |
IT STARTED LAST NOVEMBER IN A VILLAGE QUITE REMOTE A MYSTERY ILLNESS WITH NO CURE THAT SPREAD AROUND THE GLOBE THE SYMPTOMS CAME ON SUDDENLY HIGH FEVER, CHILLS AND PAIN HOW IT STARTED NO ONE KNEW SCIENTISTS SOUGHT A CURE IN VAIN THE VIRUS WAS CONTAGIOUS IT SPANNED THE WORLD'S BREADTH THE AFFLICTED SUFFERED HORRIBLY THE OUTCOME? ALWAYS DEATH.. FEAR AND PANIC WERE EVERYWHERE THE NIGHTLY NEWS WAS GRIM PEOPLE AFRAID IF THEY LEFT THEIR HOMES THE VIRUS WOULD SNEAK IN! DOCTORS IN EVERY COUNTRY WORKED FEVERISHLY DAY AND NIGHT TRYING TO FIND AN ANTIDOTE TO AID HUMANITY'S PLIGHT! NO SINGLE PLACE ON EARTH WAS SPARED THE SICKNESS TOOK OLD AND YOUNG THE RICH, THE POOR IT SHOWED NO MERCY PEOPLE MOURNED IN EVERY TONGUE! THEN ONE DAY, A BREAKTHROUGH! A BULLETIN BROADCAST ON THE NEWS! THEY'D FOUND SOMETHING THAT MIGHT WORK A SERUM THAT COULD BE USED! BUT IN ORDER TO MAKE THE VACCINE THEY NEEDED BLOOD THAT WAS QUITE PURE IT'S ANTIBODIES WOULD FIGHT THE VIRUS IT WAS NECESSARY TO THE CURE! EVERY MAN AND WOMAN WORLDWIDE PLUS EVERY CHILD OVER TWO MUST REPORT TO LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS A BLOOD TEST IS WHAT THEY'D DO TIME WAS OF THE ESSENCE... AND THE RESEARCH WAS QUITE TRYING THE CURE WAS NEEDED DESPERATELY BECAUSE MILLIONS WERE STILL DYING SO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY TAKE YOUR PLACE IN LINE WITH ALL THE OTHERS GIVE A SAMPLE ... GET YOUR NUMBERS THEN STAND TALKING WITH ONE ANOTHER... THEN ALL AT ONCE A SHOUT IS HEARD UP FRONT NEAR THE CLINICS DOOR A MAN WITH A BULLHORN FLIPS A PAGE "WHO HAS THE NUMBER 44 ??" Continued...>> |
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