title: The FLU-OLOGY: Two Contagious Tales of Deadly Global Pandemic
author:  Jacqueline Druga 
description: Jacqueline Druga is a native of Pittsburgh, Pa. She is a prolific writer and filmmaker. Her published works include genres of all types, but favors post-apocalypse and apocalypse writing. Currently she is in production of her third full-length feature film in which she has written and is producing.
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  Two Days' Solitary Imprisonment  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  # Two Days' Solitary Imprisonment
  
  
  ### Edward Bellamy
  
  
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  TWO DAYS' SOLITARY IMPRISONMENT
  
  By Edward Bellamy
  
  1898
  
  Mr. Joseph Kilgore was suffering from one of those spring influenzas which
  make a man feel as if he were his own grandfather. His nose had acquired the
  shape of a turnip and the complexion of a beet. All his bones ached as if he
  had been soundly thrashed, and his eyes were weak and watery. Your deadly
  disease is oftener than not a gentleman who takes your life without mauling
  you, but the minor diseases are mere bruisers who just go in for making one as
  uncomfortable and unpresentable as possible. Mr. Kilgore's influenza had been
  coming on for several days, and when he woke up this particular morning and
  heard the rain dripping on the piazza-roof just under his bedroom-window, he
  concluded, 