Ill at Ease
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Last published Sat, May 12, 2012
When you grow up being taught to live in fear, is bravery a bad thing? That’s one of the questions Mikaehla must ask herself as her worst nightmares come to life. --------------------------------------------This is a short story I had to write for English class a while back. The prompt was to write a story that takes place 200 years in the future after some sort of disease wiped out most of the planet's population.
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