( This short story is, in its entirety, the product of the author's imagination.)
This written account was discovered in the North-Western part of what was once known as the United States of America. Some believe this could be the source of the disease that reshaped our world, that decimated our population to the brink of unsustainable number. This document, though submitted into the historical records, is not regarded as the beginning of the outbreak, but it is a beginning...
On Feb. 2nd, 1982 an unusual birth took place somewhere in Southern California. A normal baby boy was born. That wasn't strange. No, not at all--happens everyday. Sure, but not every newborn pops out clutching a pen. He was holding it wrong, but that wasn't the point. The pen was there. Boy, was my mother glad I was a c-section.