Here's a short story that I wrote. Please do give it a read and let  me know if you liked it. 

    

DAVID 

With a heavy heart he kept walking in the graveyard looking for that one name. He stood still in silence when he found it. There it was right in front of his eyes.

“Hey David, look it’s me, Robert”, he whispered softly, holding back tears.

David was not only a good friend but also very kind and helpful to everyone who needed help. Whenever Robert tried to close his eyes and recall David, he would always remember a cheerful and happy face which never failed to greet anyone with a smile. 

Then came the dark days. A pandemic that spread all over the world. COVID-19 was its name. It took lives of thousands of innocent people and David was one of them. History will remember these days and also the hero that brought light in darkest days. It was a young scientist, Dr. Bennet who worked for months to find a cure. His vaccines were rejected in the beginning by the senior doctors. They said that it wouldn’t be effective for such a strong virus. Disheartened, he kept working day and night, hardly getting out of the lab. No one saw him for weeks. He would always stay busy in his lab, looking through the microscope and scribbling things down in his diary. 

One fine morning a parcel was received by the National Virology Departmental Laboratories sent by Dr. Bennet. It had a diary in it with a note that read, “I think this vaccine might help. All the details of the structures and formulae are given in this diary”. 

“It worked David, it worked”, whispered Robert with tears rolling down his cheeks. 

“Everyone is happy again. The dark days are gone. If you’d only have a few more days, you could be saved too. I wish you could see this new world David”.

Wiping his tears, Robert bent down to place the flowers on the grave.

The gravestone read, “Dr. David Bennet (1989-2020)”, with the epitaph, “All heroes do not wear capes, some wear white coats too”.