September 2012 Blog Chain: "Seven"

This week’s post is my entry to Orion_mk3’s monthly absolutewrite.com 2012 blog chain. The theme this month is “seven.” If I’m honest, I have been thinking about what to do for this entry for weeks now and, as of this morning, still had no clue what I was going to do with it. Luckily, I m a veteran last-minute-Louie and came up with a crafty new plan just now. I’ve had an idea for a new work-in-progress. I’m going to kick-start it by working on it for seven straight minutes—no more, no less. Fortunately, my hand feels much better so this is a doable task. Thank you, random injury, for randomly fading away!

I’m not sure what’s going to happen here. I might come up with the beginnings of a story. I might come up with chicken scratch notes. I might come up with a blank screen with that little Word dashy thing blinking in and out. Whatever the result may be, I’m going to set the alarm on my iPhone for seven minutes and start working on it…now:

 

It starts with a nosebleed. Little red flecks sprinkled on a tissue were once remedied by lying down, waiting them out. Now they’re remedied by death. The chills come after the flecks, then the joint pain. Loss of mobility arrives shortly after that. Before you know it, everything has failed and you’re left on the side of the road waiting to be tossed into one of the carts that go God-knows-where. We all fear those carts—of course we do. Who wouldn’t fear the end?

Some people are optimistic. They say the carts carry people to the cure, that those who are saved are then separated from the rest of the population to ensure they are not infected again. I wish I could believe that as the truth. After what I’ve seen I know it to be nothing but a pipe dream. I keep it to myself, though. The hope of a cure is the one thing that keeps most people going. I don’t have the heart to tell them there isn’t one.

She ran away again. That was to be expected—she always runs. Maybe it was to get away from the nosebleeds. Maybe it was to get away from me—who knows? I can scrap together a pile of hunches but they won’t stop her going.

I’d follow her if she’d let me.

 

That’s as far as I got. If you found my entry interesting and would like to read more like it, below is a list of blog chain participants. Be sure to check them out and/or sign up for next month’s chain over at Absolute Write. Spreading the chain equals spreading the community, which is always a good thing!

Until next time,

 

—R

 

Participants and posts:
orion_mk3 - http://nonexistentbooks.wordpress.com (link to this month's post)
Ralph Pines - http://ralfast.wordpress.com/ (link to this month's post)
bmadsen - http://hospitaloflife.wordpress.com (link to this month's post)
writingismypassion - http://charityfaye.blogspot.com/ (link to this month's post)
pyrosama - http://matrix-hole.blogspot.com/ (link to this month's post)
areteus - http://lurkingmusings.wordpress.com/ (link to this month's post)
randi.lee - http://emotionalnovel.blogspot.com/ (link to this month's post)
BBBurke - http://www.awritersprogression.com/ (link to this month's post)
BigWords - http://bigwords88.wordpress.com/ (link to this month's post)
meowzbark - http://erlessard.wordpress.com/ (link to this month's post)
SuzanneSeese - http://www.viewofsue.blogspot.com/ (link to this month's post)
AFord - http://writeword.blog.com/ (link to this month's post)
Kricket - http://kricketwrites.blogspot.com/ (link to this month's post)