Surviving War or Pandemic?

Dead bodies were everywhere! At first, there were just pictures in the newspapers my parents bought each morning. I never cared to read them, before now. But something about the way the adults acted, spoke, and looked, drew me to the newspapers. The adults were buying and storing large quantities of toiletries and nonperishable food (in my home alone we had an entire bedroom filled with 100-pound bags of rice). They were talking about how…