Polio Stories

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...

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...

All the other kids love Cecil and he will always find time to learn with them, spend playtime with them or even just be there when they need him at school.

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

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...

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...

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...

Based on true events, this story shows some of miracles and hardships that were endured in the mid-1900s. This short story is based off of my great-grandparents, who ob...

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

Real life story of a Rotary Volunteer who ventured against threats to his life to argue and convince aggressive mobs trapped by misinformation and fanaticism propagated...

A girl named Peg, somehow got a highly contagious disease named poliomyelitis also known as polio and was scared and paralyzed from neck down. This is the story of how s...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

This is about an inspirational girl that could , so she did . ( heads up this is NOT a real story or based on anyone .)