STORY STARTER
Submitted by by Laura Melvin
"I think I just met the happiest person in the world!"
Write a scene or story which begins with this piece of speech.
Vaccineuphoric
Part One (The Onlooker)
“I think I just met the happiest person in the world!
I did.”
Calamity averted, no signs
Of distress.
Only her hair,
Rather a mess
Not by tearing it out
But from winding the curls
Round jubilant fingers
A queen of the world!
When this pandemic is over
Do heap your praise
She will be the first
That immortality craze
Part Two (The Vaccinated)
Look at my needle!
These vials of blood
I’m an angel, a light
from this mutating flood
A pioneer of said treatment
Feeling no side-effects
Snap my picture, jab jab
I’ll be triply checked
Part Three (The Onlooker returns)
The headlines run over
Spill from their edges
Their thirst for answers
Via numerous pledges
Yet, she’s on cloud nine
Injected with pride
The sheerness of joy
Mirror to her insides?
But, if they got it wrong
Her sample mismatching a cure
She’ll ride this crest regardless?
Peaking before the furore.