Her skin was a ghastly sort of yellow,light, but noticeable. Instead of our usual conversation she walked to get her tea and left without a word leaving her mouth she had a slightly worried look which worried me her tough,determine self was nowhere in sight. She payed for her tea and left the store leaving an astonished look across my face. I stood there petrified for the few minutes that followed. I decided it best that I go to tell my dad. after all it had been an unusually slow day so far so I told him about the unusual run-in with Mrs. Harrington. As I told him the story the same astonished gaze appeared on his face. After telling the story to my father he told me to go to the water fountain so that we do not run out of water. All over the town many people seemed to share similar symptoms with Mrs. Harrington spreading a gloomy feeling around the town like a giant storm cloud
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The yellow curse
Historical FictionCassiana is growing up right in the middle of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 with her sister and father the fever hits turning cassiana's world is turned upside down
