Falling from the clouds in drifting fashion, ashes drift down to the earth from smoke plumes overhead. Watching from down below, we humans see this different phenomenon affect us in ways we don't even know. For months, the ashes continues on like falling impure, dirty snow. For months, many people with respiratory illnesses become sicker and sicker at a frightening pace. I, myself, am one of the people whose illness is progressively overtaking my body at such an alarming pace. Like many others, into the night I struggle to stay warm as I hack up phlegm, and white balled discharge that tastes suspiciously like bleach. A fever begins taking over me over a long expanse of time at a snail-like pace, and takes me by storm. I try to fight it, but my weak body had no more strength left from fighting the pneumonia. I just lie there in my bed too weak to move my once-abled body, and fall back to sleep into my fevered dreams of memories of another planet unlike Earth that I wished to be my own and to never end.
The next morning, I awoke to grey clouds and a dull, grey scenery of fallen ash outside the window of my cold, frigid room. Outside my door, I can hear the sound of the national news going on in the background of the living room. My mother must have been up all night as she always was quite lately; she never seemed to sleep very much anymore. I guess you could say that she was an insomniac, but I wouldn't know since she had never been diagnosed. "...In other news, the government has announced there is a super-virus out there that many people have become ill from in recent months called the Impurity Phenomenon. The symptoms for this illness are as followed: coughing, headaches, a fever greater than 105 degrees, aching pains, delusional tendencies, weakness and can cause the person to contract pneumonia. People with this illness are advised to remain indoors, and to remain isolated from the general public, since the CDC are not sure how it is spread. There is no cure for the disease as of yet."
I was hit with a sudden bout of shock from the news report I just overheard from the living room. Could I possibly have this so-called "super-virus" that was all over the news? Then, I heard a knock at my door, "Sweetheart!" my mother called through the door, "Are you alright? You haven't come out of your room all day!"
The next morning, I awoke to grey clouds and a dull, grey scenery of fallen ash outside the window of my cold, frigid room. Outside my door, I can hear the sound of the national news going on in the background of the living room. My mother must have been up all night as she always was quite lately; she never seemed to sleep very much anymore. I guess you could say that she was an insomniac, but I wouldn't know since she had never been diagnosed. "...In other news, the government has announced there is a super-virus out there that many people have become ill from in recent months called the Impurity Phenomenon. The symptoms for this illness are as followed: coughing, headaches, a fever greater than 105 degrees, aching pains, delusional tendencies, weakness and can cause the person to contract pneumonia. People with this illness are advised to remain indoors, and to remain isolated from the general public, since the CDC are not sure how it is spread. There is no cure for the disease as of yet."
I was hit with a sudden bout of shock from the news report I just overheard from the living room. Could I possibly have this so-called "super-virus" that was all over the news? Then, I heard a knock at my door, "Sweetheart!" my mother called through the door, "Are you alright? You haven't come out of your room all day!"
