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October Writing Prompts 2022
October is here! Get out those blankets, light the fire, and cuddle up with a warm cup of hot cider or tea. Hope you've all been getting some good rest as the year winds down, And As always--
Disclaimer: I never close old writing prompts from previous months. People can and should be encouraged to post on old month's prompts and I highly encourage players to track these posts to catch stragglers or new people writing on old prompts.
Now. With that out of the way, onto this month's prompts.
1. "Come, sit by the fire and listen..."
2. Putting on a mask.
3. "I'm not afraid. Are you?"
4. Last chance for something special.
5. Interpreting an omen.
Bonus image prompt:
2 - Putting on a Mask
He’e been working at the hospital as an orderly for about seven months, hired midway through Isamu’s sophomore year. The exact amount of time, though, wasn’t important. What was important was the fact that the time he’d spent at the hospital eclipsed every single job he’d ever had. And then some.
During Isamu’s freshman year alone, Minoru probably went through as many jobs as his brother did classes. Since they moved out east, he’d bagged groceries at three different stores, stocked shelves at the local Wall-to-Wall Mart, worked retail at half a dozen shops, flipped burgers, made sandwiches, scooped ice cream, served coffee, bussed tables, washed dishes, and even dressed up like a Christmas Elf for a mall Santa. (The kids loved his flips and tricks. The mall, unfortunately, not as much…)
He never lasted very long at any of them. It wasn’t because he was incompetent (though he was really beginning to feel that way by Isamu’s sophomore year). It honestly boiled down to sheer boredom. There was only so long Minoru could stand in one spot doing the same menial task over and over and over again. Either he quit or he tried to make it a little more exciting, which led to being fired.
When he first got hired as an orderly at the hospital near the University, Minoru didn’t exactly have high expectations. Cleaning and sanitizing rooms, making beds, delivering meals, moving patients - and it was the overnight shift to boot, when even patients would be asleep. But a job was a job. Bills had to be paid.
He soon discovered, much to his surprise and delight, that nighttime at a busy hospital was anything but boring. Sometimes he was running gurneys to the operating room. Sometimes, he was delivering meals and picking up laundry. Sometimes they needed extra hands in the busy ER and he was literally on his feet the whole night with hardly enough time to down a protein bar or two. When it really was slow, Minoru usually found himself providing comfort and companionship to patients that were wide awake and worried - and he was good at it!
He was good at other things too. In the time that he’d been there, he’d learned how to properly lift and transfer patients, how to monitor vital signs, how to perform CPR and work an automated external defibrillator. As the weeks stretched into months, he got to help with more and more things. Which, of course, only got more and more exciting.
Minoru seemed tailor-made for this kind of fast-paced environment. He started each night with a spring in his step, and he always left the hospital feeling like he’d earned his exhaustion. This was more than a job. This was turning into a possible career and he hadn’t even seen it coming.
There was no time to dwell on that realization, though.
Multiple ambulances were in route from the scene of a freeway car accident and there was plenty to do before they arrived. Minoru secured his mask behind his ears, stretching it over his smile as he sprinted into the ER.
4. Last chance for something special.