Creative Writing: The Black Death

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The Black Death. It’s here and it’s spreading everywhere. My whole village has been infected. It first started when twelve Genoese trading ship came into the docks of Sicilian of Messina, Europe after a tiring journey through the Black Sea. The people who were supposed to greet the ship- i myself included- came to a awful and horrid surprise, half the sailors were dead and the ones who were barely still hanging onto their lives were extremely ill. The symptoms of the unknown illness included, boiling high fever, unable to keep food down, vomiting, aching on all parts of the body, and immense pain all their. What shocked everyone the most was the fact that they were covered in black blisters- ranging from small to large that oozed out blood