Chrysalid

(Note: 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...