Writing Prompt

The chambers slowly defrosted.

Henry opened his eyes slowly, hand in front of his eyes. It was hard to see with the blinding light.

Slowly, his foot automatically moved out, but upon impact his legs shook and he fell.

His hands hit the Antarctic-cold ground, a sudden jolt throughout my whole body.

“Sir!” someone called, though he could barely hear out his ears, and everything sounded muffled.

...

Cold.

Frozen.

Empty.

The feelings sit inside me.

I was the scientists experiment.

Warmth.

Light.

Talking.

New feelings erupted suddenly.

I was being unfrozen.

People.

Devices.

Clapping.

I stumble out of my cage.

Dress is so different now.

Lost.

Empty

Afraid.

I want to go back home.

Not on ice....

The air smells weird. That's the first thing I noticed.

I don't know how to describe it. I wouldn't say it smells 'wrong', just... different, I guess.

My assigned therapist told me it's probably something to do with the dust particles and the gas composition of the filtered air here in the base, but I don't think that's it.

Maybe 127 years in cryosleep just fried my olfactory system. I heard tha...

How many years

Oh my dear

One hundred fifty

Not so nifty

What do I do now

There’s not even a cow

My family is gone

Lost in a song

Life’s too strange

It doesn’t even rain

I think I’ll go cry

Not gunna lie...

In endless abyss Tim felt smothered in darkness.

Suddenly he halt a pounding, gasping amiss.

Thawing out from eternal slumber, eyes flickered.

Metallic cocoon creaked open to warmth absurd.

Shedding his dormant state, he slowly revived self.

His thoughts jumbled as the fog lifted; off shelf.

With Blood surging, his belabored breathing now passed.

It’s strange sensation for him as he stood aghast

...

Writing Prompt: May 2 - "Write about story about a character who has recently been brought back after being cryogenically frozen."

Go to Sleep

Get Frozen

Get Thawed

Wake Up

That was the plan. 4 steps. Not that difficult, right?

Cryogenics has been mainstream for what, two centuries now, right? There's nothing new or unusual about the process. In fact, most of it is automated.

So tell me why s...

The hiss of the chamber opening sounded like a dying breath.

Eli’s eyes blinked open, fog and ice clinging to his lashes. His lungs burned as he coughed, air tasting like copper and ozone. Bright lights too white, too clean stabbed at him.

Last he remembered, arms were around him his wife, his son. Then men in suits. Needles. Screaming. The promise of preservation. Of hope.

Now… nothing looked fam...

“What —_ggggrhghh—- _am I?”

Haunting, it was, to hear a sentence gurgled through sparse lungs that hadn’t met air in one hundred and eleven years.

“You are alive. Welcome back, Lieutenant.”

The surrounding students held their breaths as the frozen soldier took its first steps. One, two, one, two, shuffling slowly towards them in a commandering rhythm learned from years on the frontline. Did i...

‘Look at the light to the left’

*beep*

‘Then the right, this is just part of the calibration’

*beeeep*

‘No, we didn’t steal this from a video game, look at the blinking red light above my head’

*beep*

‘Rest on it till it turns green, that’s good and thank you’

*beep beep*

‘This is the final step, there is a small blinking red light on the floor by my feet’

*beep*

‘Wait for it to turn gr...

The police are waiting for me outside my pod.

They haven’t opened it yet as I haven’t fully thawed, and I can see the frustration in their eyes.

The uniform hasn’t changed much, the jackets are still neon and padded, but holograms make my eyes water as I stare with bleary eyes.

A scientist shoos them away and they begrudgingly go, eyes dark and glowering.

They hand her two yellow bands and poin...