catherines confessions

Welcome to the Romantic Friday Writing Bi-Weekly Challenge, started and hosted by DeniseCovey_L'Aussie , where participants share their own 300-400-word text on a given theme. This week's theme for Friday, 30th December, Challenge No. 28, is ' Ties That Bind '. My text is written directly for this REW-challenge. Here is my text : ------- The House-Call She was only fourteen in 1941 , And had just taken one step away from childhood, When she fell ill with high fever and red spots. It was late December, And colder than ever remembered, There was war everywhere else except here. A very bad strain of an infectious disease spread throughout the town. Several children had already died. Although an unoccupied country, It was still not a good place to become ill. Water-pipes froze in apartment buildings, So tenants had no drinking-water. But their house was better built. There were no heaters in motor vehicles, Not even in ambulances, Should she be taken to ...