County General Natural Disaster Challenge
THE CHALLENGE
Create a work of writing/art/etc. about our intrepid heroes facing a natural disaster — literally, metaphorically, psychologically! However you interpret that is up to you.
These prompts are meant to inspire your imagination, but in no way should you feel restricted by them. If you wanna write about a volcano, then by all means— LET US SEE THAT PYROCLASTIC FLOW!
(Open, Unmoderated)
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The Turner family goes into the bathroom and shuts the door. Carter turns to Abby. "You should get to the basement," he tells her.
"No," she says with an insouciant shrug, meeting his gaze head on.
"Will you go to the basement," he asks irritably, feeling his temper boil over. "I do not want you getting hurt."
OR; what if instead of smallpox, it’s a tornado? Will Carter and Abby still kiss in a hospital room while the world ends?
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“Grab your coat and bag and let’s get out-”
She’s cut off mid sentence as the room shudders again. The nurse pauses for a moment, thinking it will go away just like the last time. It doesn’t. The room starts to sway. Everything in motion. The windows rattle. The desks shifts.
“Woah,” Carter cries out.
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When caught in the aftermath of a rare earthquake and awaiting rescue, Carol finds herself trapped with a pinned and severely injured Carter. Doug rushes to their aid. Set in S4.
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“How are you feeling? Any warmer?” Peter squeezes the other man’s hand through the cover, already knowing the answer without a word from Carter.
The room is freezing, the blanket is far too thin, and the hypothermic man is not generating any heat on his own. Panic surges in the surgeon’s chest. He needs to find another way.
“Goddammit. Scoot over, Carter.”
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Benton and Carter are trapped in a blizzard. -
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As his old student moves closer to the edge, Peter inches forward. He can see that John’s entire body is trembling. Carter's eyes are wide and wild and terrified. Pupils massively dilated. Skin nearly white. His blue scrubs are completely soaked, clinging to every angle of his skinny frame. Hair plastered to his forehead.
The scene has an apocalyptic feel to it – it looks like a shot from a movie. A pitch-black night, lit only by distant streetlights. Wind whipping through his hair, waves crashing. The force of the rain beating against the pavement creates a hazy mist between them.
Peter raises his hands placatingly.
OR: Carter gets dosed with a mind-altering drug in the middle of a once-in-a-generation rainstorm.
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It's the end of the world.
In the last day before a life-ending asteroid is due to strike Earth, wiping out everyone and everything on it, John Carter considers the past, the present, and impossibly -- the future.
A brief exploration of hope-maxxing in the apocalypse.