title: The Measly Virus
author:  Emma Vincent 
description: Emma is a qualified global supply chain manager with an MBA and over 10 years experience in the resources industry. While she has an abundance of expertise in business and logistics, she is truly passionate about her children and writing a more inspiring combination. An Australian now based in the UK, Emma is undertaking to write and publish a set of childrens books that promote an awareness of health and wellbeing issues about kids to kids, in a fun and imaginative way. Emma fully utilises her corporate skillset bringing a principled, determined and pragmatic resolve to her writing and publishing venture. She has considerable personal capacity, unwavering personal standards of performance, and is a dedicated, energetic individual.
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  A Safe Place
  
  
  
  
  
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  Scott Frost
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Prologue
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The world turned into a state of terror. The infected never stopped hunting;
  never stopped searching for food. We didn’t see it coming. No one did. It
  happened overnight. We watched the news broadcast before we fell asleep, but
  thought nothing of it. The reports were vague. They warned citizens to stay
  inside. We listened. We stayed inside. They said that a virus had potentially
  spread. Potentially, everything was always potentially.
  
  
  Natasha and Emma fell asleep on my lap. I watched my beautiful wife and
  daughter sleeping. They looked peaceful. They were both laying across the
  couch, their heads resting on a pillow on my lap. Emma was wearing her
  favorite Dora the Explorer night gown. I was sitting upright, slightly leaning
  against the arm of the couch. I was very unconformable , but I didn’t want to
  move and risk waking them up.
  
  
  It took me a whi