The Disease

Recently in America the biggest epidemic to take lives would be cancer or at this time known as the “illness”. Because their rural town does not have accesses to much technology or media, they do not know the cause of this disease and believe it to be witches. The townspeople would assume that the witch would be the person to have last seen the victim before they fell ill. This person would then be prosecuted for bewitching the victim and punished equally.

In our story our main characters are a newly-wed couple. A week after the wedding the husband falls ill. It is discovered at the hospital that he has “the illness”. Our scene opens in his hospital room as he and his wife are being interrogated to see if the cause of his illness is present even though the person asking believes that it is the wife who bewitched him.

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