Weekly Centina Prompt: Pandemic
Tell us an imaginative, 100-word tale about a pandemic
How could we not have thought of this prompt earlier? It’s so obvious. So here we go:
Write a 100-word story about a pandemic.
We can hear your gears whirring already. It’s going to be an interesting story, isn’t it?
Pandemics have three stages: How it began, during the pandemic, and when the pandemic is over. (We’re assuming pandemics end, but you don’t have to.) You can write about all three phases — we’d love to see you squeeze the entire pandemic saga into 100-words — or just one or two of these phases. Set your story in the past, present or future, whichever suits you. Your story can take place in your home country — or anywhere you choose.
I have no idea what’s awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing. — Albert Camus, The Plague
They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn’t much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love didn’t grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn’t grow very well in a place where it was always dark. — Stephen King, The Stand
If I could have one superpower it would be to see very tiny objects, like viruses. — Bill Adler, talking to his cat
If you’re in the mood to be uplifting, we could certainly use some of that. If your pandemic story is a downer, we understand, because pandemics usually take us down a road paved with sorrow. We’re prepared for strange and supernatural. We’re braced for heroes and villains, romance and action, despair and elation, victory and defeat, bravery and cowardliness.
We’re not looking for autobiographical stories about this pandemic. (We all panicked about toilet paper back in February and March.) Let your imagination roam.
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