Colds: A Fictional Narrative

After a while, Mama came in. She smiled at me and said, “Good morning,” before she bent over Sarah’s crib.

The common cold has been plaguing humankind since the beginning of human existence. Even in these advanced times, there is no vaccine or cure. There are many symptoms that accompany the common cold. Some of these infamous symptoms are a runny nose, caused by inflammation of the nasal tissues, resulting in over production of mucus to trap the virus, and coughing.

"Right," she replied, her current terror clouding her ability to cover up the obvious lie she was forced to tell.

“It's actually a prophecy. There's a secret group trying to put it together,” Zarya started to explain.

Mom would be home soon and I was getting kind of bored. I broke through the gaggle of girls barking at Krista, said a quick goodbye and started home. Luckily for me, Krista’s house was only 5 or 10 minutes away from mine. Unluckily for me, I didn’t bring a coat, so I had to trek into the frigid, biting wind that nipped at my body the entire time home. As soon as I reached my house my body was wrapped in a blanket of warmth, the familiar smell of waffles and syrup greeting my nose. Since my mom wouldn’t be home for another hour or so, I didn’t try to sneak back in. Yet to my surprise, as I stomped upstairs I heard a voice coming from her room. It’s probably just Ally on the phone or something, I reassured myself. When I passed by my mom’s room, it wasn’t Ally standing there, it was my mom pacing the room with a worried expression on her face. Something I’ve never seen

“Yes really, but it has always been intriguing to me…. maybe you can explain it to me?” Ollie asked

I went outside to find Courtney, but she was nowhere to be seen. “Hey, get in the car!” Misty had yelled from the driver’s side of her Dodge Neon. “Can you take me by Courtney’s? I want to talk to her.” I asked as I chunked my backpack into the backseat “No, just call her later. We need to get Guy and go home to start to pack.” When we got home my father was listening to the scanner. “Hey girls, do yawl know a Danielle Wilson, age 20 from Tushka?” “No!” both of us said as we went into our room “Well they had a wreck earlier before school got release. They were T-boned by a semi truck, but they are not releasing much more information” Stated my father. Immediately I thought about Courtney, but I thought to myself, no, it couldn’t have been her she is only fifteen years old. A few hours went by without hearing anything else. The phone began to ring; I rushed over as fast as I could. “Hello” I said. “Hey, it’s Kathy, did you hear over the scanner?” she asked. “No, it couldn’t have been her Dad said it was a Danielle and she was twenty” I said with tears in my eyes. “Oh okay, well let me know if you hear anything else.” Kathy stated. “Okay” I said as I hanged up the phone. Another hour had gone by without hearing anything. So I began to pack for our family vacation that we were getting ready to take the next day,

Fifteen minutes later, my mom returned. She wore a distressed look as she spoke hurriedly.

“Oh nothing mom! Just playing around, nothing else!” I said in return, while trying to control my breathing. I began to sweat profusely. My cheeks turned an awful shade of red. My legs became wobbly like jelly. I never have been able to lie very well. My mom was at the top of the stairs. She was wearing a pink bathrobe with a lime green mask on her face.

The cold is a very well known virus. About 3 million people in the U.S. get it every year. The cold spreads very easily and it is usually self treatable. Lab tests are not required for this,mans it usually last for about a week or less. Symptoms could be pain in the muscles, lots of coughing, whole body chills, fatigue, fever, malice, or body aches, runny nose, sneezing, redness, congestion, post nasal drip, and many more. The treatment for this virus is to get lots of rest and to blow your nose a

Common cold tends to have a bad and negative impact on people. Some research try to prove it. Memory tends to be associated with the negative traits of a cold. This study used a wide range of genes, about 200 participants being half males and the other half females, all the participants were healthy at the time of this study. The research that was being executed required many tests. Mood rating, reaction time and reasoning were some of the exercises required by the research. Once the tests were done, they would return to the research facility when he or she developed a URTI. Only as little as 48 participants got contaminated, the rest of the group were declared a control. Being sick with a cold would reduce the chances of the

I nodded again. We sat in comfortable silence. She finally looked up from her lap and she looked as beautiful as ever. Her fluffy hair was a tangled mess and her face streamed with dried up tears.

“I’m going to check it out you stay Margo you’re much to suck to get up”.

The year is slipping away as October has come and signs of autumn are everywhere.

This story doesn't end like every other story does, this story's has a terrible ending and everyone dies, the world has finally fallen apart everywhere you go people are no longer living, nobody falls in love in this story! Everywhere you go you're being chased by different creatures and people that want to eat your flesh. Okay I think it is about time to start the story finally. It all started off when everyone started to get sick and people started dying off they were being called the kreeps , it started off with my mom she was too far off to be able to help her we took her to the hospital when she started getting “better” that is when we brought her home and then it got worse for her she was always vomiting, and then dad took her to the