Polio Stories

In prep school I became a close friend of Brian Meadows. His mobility impairment was obvious. Over time its cause became evident as he described a peculiar turn of min...

Nine-year-old Trey's lonely, sad life as a fatherless misfit is changed forever when the new preacher's kid, the indomitable Charley, arrives. Everyone around Charley s...

James Smith and Elizabeth Jones are two 16 year olds just trying to survive world war two in the middle of the blitz James and Elizabeth hear the air raid sirens on one...

About a boy who was that 1% who got polio. He struggles to survive this horrid disease He is only ten too In Dakota's point of view

She was beautiful. I was a freak. It was beyond hopeless.

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Ronnie Harden was diagnosed with nonparalytic poliomyelitis at a young age, and as a pessimist would, she never really hoped that a vaccine would be found to rid her of...

There was a boy with polio. He has a crutch unable to really walk very well. As the days go on and he he slowly fading from this world he writes about his days. This sto...

As these letters go to show you, no one could escape the chaos of the 1940s. With newlywed couples being torn apart by the war, the stress of day to day life takes an ev...

Two children, both best friends. One is an anti-vaxxer child, without vaccinations The other's immune system was compromised since birth, causing vaccines to be too dang...

Austin and his best friend Athea are going through tough times. And it just keeps getting worse. Keep reading to find out what happened to Athea, what they did about it...

Frances Noble is asked what she does all day, and she answers the reporter with these short vignettes.

The human population increased from 1 billion to 7.8 billion between 1800 and 2020 because of sewage treatment, clean drinking water, vitamins, vaccines and antibiotics...

Political poet, Lucy Furlong, is horrified to find that she has been nominated for the New Year's Honours list, having been anti-establishment her whole life. How could...

This is all about Paul Alexander's victorious life and the struggles in it.

All I ever do is look up at the moon, I observe the light paneling out from the outer edges getting dimmer and dimmer as it flows out towards space; our sky. A trip to s...

When Autumn is diagnosed with Polio all of her friends abandon her except for her one true friend who teaches Autumn how to walk, and Autumn teaches her to always smile...

When thirteen year old Esha Harper's parent's die, she can't rest until she uncovers the truth, so she tries to solve the murder herself. But will she die trying?

When 24 year old Lucy Swan is suddenly crippled by polio, her dreams of becoming a dancer are crushed. However, she won't let it stop her from carrying on her fantasy to...

Ben Griffin was your average high-school kid until, he revealed that he wasn't vaccinated. Catching a severe case of Polio, and ending up in a wheelchair for the rest of...