Tall Poppies (2012)
“It spread across the globe like wildfire, killing millions of people, both healthy and ill. Sparing others.
It spared Chad and Esmé, but only just.
The world powers ran out of fight in the face of it. In September 1918, Bulgaria withdrew from the war, quickly followed by Austria, Turkey and Hungary. The troops were exhausted and short of supplies, and another winter in the trenches was beyond human endurance, as well as impractical. The Germans initiated peace terms and the armistice was formal...ly signed on the eleventh of November 1918.
There was a weary relief in the air, and people looked to Christmas with muted eagerness, and some with joy, for there was now a new hope in the air that their loved ones would return intact.
Even Livia felt it, for her own lost siblings had been restored to her, at least in spirit. Soon she would make a home for them.
Her concern over their illness had taken her into womanhood, and although she was twenty-one she felt as though she was ten years older in maturity.MoreLess
It spared Chad and Esmé, but only just.
The world powers ran out of fight in the face of it. In September 1918, Bulgaria withdrew from the war, quickly followed by Austria, Turkey and Hungary. The troops were exhausted and short of supplies, and another winter in the trenches was beyond human endurance, as well as impractical. The Germans initiated peace terms and the armistice was formal...ly signed on the eleventh of November 1918.
There was a weary relief in the air, and people looked to Christmas with muted eagerness, and some with joy, for there was now a new hope in the air that their loved ones would return intact.
Even Livia felt it, for her own lost siblings had been restored to her, at least in spirit. Soon she would make a home for them.
Her concern over their illness had taken her into womanhood, and although she was twenty-one she felt as though she was ten years older in maturity.MoreLess
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