Writing Prompt

It started on Halloween, so we all thought it was a joke. Coronavirus has been on the rise since late 2019 and it was followed by a series of odd events, such as new 5g towers, UFO evidence from the PENTAGON, murder hornets, and a star goes missing. Now I know I probably sound like every other conspiracy theorist, but I'm not. I’m a historian, and my name is Famida Michi Veda, and it means a smart...

It was starting to be a sick habit of mine nowadays: sitting in my darkened apartment, scrolling through Twitter, wading through hashtags and halting at a video.

I wasn’t here for the comments, the memes. I wasn’t even for the entitlement the Karen in the video displayed. She was just as unremarkable as the rest: she was clearly vying for an even tan, but had ended up with a sunburnt splotch ove...

They think I got it all together 😪

Somehow this stuff gets to me

Messes with me mentally

Pressure can make a man great &

Pressure can make a man break....

When the first patient came to the hospital,

it was like something out of movie.

Bloodshot eyes stared into seemingly nowhere and everywhere at once.

Slow breaths rasped from lips as blue as violets. Chapped and torn.

Purple dots ravaged their skin, radiating a chill through all who were near.

A rash like no other plagued the hands, at which grabbed at those who came close.

Almost claw like ...

I opened the door to my car and quickly sat down on the driver’s seat. I needed to run to the store to buy some groceries and dinner, and I’d been procrastinating all day. It was 7:00 in the afternoon. I turned the key to start the ignition before exiting the garage. I soon found myself in the parking lot of the local grocery store.

I put on my mask and headed toward the automatic doors. The wal...

They say, everyday holds the possibility of miracles, but I don’t think this is what they meant. Walking the streets with a mask firmly placed on my face I look around at the people around me. It’s truly sad, horrific even to be able to see just how many people are effected by the virus.

The worst is that your age changes how you look, the infants the most innocent of them all are blue, a sickly ...

I looked up from my book to see a young gentleman take the seat across from me.

My insides began to churn as I was not expecting any company, especially one that was sitting so....close.

I glanced down at his blue and green polk-a-dot mask. I smiled underneath mine.

The mask didn’t suit him at all.

I continued to scrutinize him closely, making sure to look for the telling sign of the infec...

I sit up in my bed and look out the window. The sun has just begun to crest over the treetops, and the rays of sunshine stretch over the land. I get up, and after changing, walk downstairs. There’s no one in the house but me. I make some toast, and eat quickly, I have to get to work soon.

After breakfast I hop in the car and turn the key in the ignition. The engine roars to life, and slowly craw...

I’m walking down the street. People are passing me on my left and right. It seems like any other day.

I stop. Something is different. There are people in the crowds. People who seem... different.

They walk along surrounded by a mist. The very air they breathe seems to cloud up with colour. Greens, blues, purples. In, out. In, out.

The mist seems to be spreading. Dissipating through the crowd.

It ...

She had yellow patches all over her body. Not that of sunflowers and egg yolks, but a grayish green hue that flared up every now and then when she coughed.

It felt like it was alive, pulsating with a life of its own. It was in constant motion, making its way to different body parts, sometimes resting, sometimes moving on.

She could barely breathe, it was no wonder given how her whole left lung a...