Title Game Mini-Writes Wk One
One weird word you like CACOPHONY Why hadn’t she noticed it before? Another one. God. Steph tried to put the sound out of her mind and continued cleaning the dishes. She put the garbage outside the door. Another ambulance. She crossed the room to close a window and heard another on the street behind the house. Ceaseless. The cacophony was morose and disconcerting, mostly, though, it was nerve wracking. The numbers were climbing by the hour and did not stop. People dropping like flies. When she told her family on the other side of the ocean, they listened distractedly. Maybe it would not reach the US. Steph knew they said she was dramatic. Impossible to describe how everyone here in Milan was closed-up behind the huge building doors. No one dared to move unless it was an outright emergency. Those that went to the hospital were at the end of their rope. The hospitals wer...