Pandemic Novels & Stories

Katelyn’s POV The world shifted in the span of weeks. First, it was a few scattered reports about pneumonia cases that didn’t seem to follow a pattern. Then the numbers multiplied. Provinces and cities, each day new places appeared in the headlines. It wasn’t just pneumonia anymore. The word changed. A novel coronavirus. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2. The announcement came from the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Level 1 emergency response. The highest there was. The moment I read the bulletin, I felt the ground tilt under me.

That’s when he knew what he heard on the news was less than accurate. The rate at which disaster ensued was in every sense of the word shocking. A bustling mighty city was silenced. In record time thousands were dying all alone. Bodies stacked in freezer trucks. Half a million people were out of work. The social fabric was ripped into rifts that have not been repaired and may not be for quite a while. Trust, time had been lost and yet the dire predictions of a city damaged beyond repair. And even now the arrival of new subvariant is also a reminder that the pandemic is not over. Ross was taking Tippa back home to a place that would never go back to the way it