Good morning from the Kingdom of Shrawley, thought i’d try and get in early today, I think i’ve been in the first 10 once in about 2 years, I’m usually mid table mediocrity, so Rochelle I’m going to try and write this during a company record breaking “Webinar” which should be full of glitches and over talking, barking dogs and errant children. Thanks also to Jeff Arnold for the photo, let’s see what it inspires. So without further ado…
On My Marks…
Get Set…
GO!!!
The plague, virus what ever they called it, had decimated the conurbation, the previously tranquil fishing borough had become a morgue.
In the city bodies were putrefying on the pavements, flies were feasting on the dead and those expected soon to be dead. Whoever was left collected the cadavers, to set them loose on the ocean, to send them anywhere else; far from here.
The boats; rudders fixed, engines on, set sail for the open ocean, an explosive device on each.
As the storm raged, and diesel fumes choked the harbour air, countless explosions dotted the horizon, a distant Armageddon.
100 words on the button, pretty grim today, sorry.
The Count Of North Clifton 
Very grim. We can give thanks that, for us, it’s nothing like those. For people in the developing world, this may be closer to the reality to come
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Africa and India I worry for and bits of Asia, what the real extent is in N Korea we will probably never know. Stay safe
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Dear Shrawley,
Too realistic. In face it sounds like New York City. Well described, though. Think I’ll go huddle in a corner and suck my thumb. But I’ll wash my hands first and then put on rubber gloves. Congrats on being early.
Shalom and continued good health to you, your kids and your barking dogs,
Rochelle
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Thanks Rochelle, being in a little village allows me to speculate as to what’s going on, the horrors of the cities in lock down. Hoping you’re keeping well and active too.
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A bit on the grim side today. Hope it doesn’t quite come to that any time soon….
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I know isn’t it awful, I’m not watching the news anymore, I’ll know when its ok to go out when the pubs open again! Stay safe
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I’m sure when the pubs open again they will be packed… you too, stay safe.
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As the others have said – grim indeed. And yes, I can’t help but worry for those in developing countries. While in the UK we moan about being bored, the suffering for those living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions must be unbearable. A good story
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Thanks, I echo your sentiments, Its odd being bored, I haven’t been bored for years
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Yeah, I’ve not been booked either. I’ve been in the garden or writing, food shopping, chores. No chance to be bored. Though we were queuing for vegetables due the best part of an hour the other day – that was a bit boring!
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Well, I got a pretty clear picture of those ‘cremations’. I may need to go and bleach my imagination now.
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Sorry, this virus is rotting my mind
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Grim, yes–but not all is lost! I learned a new-to-me word from you today–conurbation 🙂
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Glad to be of service, thats Geography A-level for you!!
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My aren’t we cheery this day…
And you made it to 13 and ahead of me by four!
And I learnt today that I live in a conurbation….
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Cool you’re the second in 2 comments to not know conurbation, must be a British thing maybe? Yep 4 ahead off you, despite you being teachers pet!!
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Hahaha! It might be (though I love British expressions) or just a case of not having come across this word… Shhhh about the teacher’s pet thing…
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We’re not there yet, and toilet paper is back on the supermarket shelves, so we may bounce back before it gets to this. The numbers coming out of Africa are suspiciously low at the moment, and I suspect don’t represent a true picture, similarly the middle east. Grim all round.
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Damn right, India and Africa, parts of Asia could be terrible. I suspect we’ll never know the true cost
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I’d been bracing for much worse than we’re experiencing in our country. Hope this isn’t a lull before the storm and we just have keep doing whatever we’re doing right to calmly cruise out the other side.
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This weekend will be the test, if people do what they’re told and stay at home. Problem is Easter is traditionally a time for fighting and mass drunkenness on the streets if the weathers good, which it is!!
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Once this was a Viking style funeral, now, well even twenty years back in India I have seen burning boats and bodies floating out to sea. Grim
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I rather enjoyed this, sir, I thought it was well written, if perhaps a tad graphic.
But this challenge is supposed to be fiction!
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I hate to say it may come to that. Funeral homes have no more room and have stopped embalming. In Detroit they are storing the bodies on ice in ice arenas.
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At least you kept it cheery. We can all use some cheering up about now.
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Hard to focus on anything but the virus, isn’t it. Well written 👍🏻
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Very grim, though you are where you are and no feelings are wrong to express. Take care of you!
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A story that is an explosive device in it’s own right. Well done.
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very grim. hopefully, it won’t come to this as the world battles this pandemic.
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We’d run out of boats pretty damn quick. And we’d lose our own ability to escape the land. Need another solution sir!
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Massive pyres
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I love your home page btw, I need to learn how to do that! I’m not visually clever 🙂
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Well thanks, it’s a standard WordPress set up. I’ll find out what it’s called. I don’t have an index so you just have to take pot luck I’m afraid, click on a photo which you like, doesn’t bother me because I’m not selling anything, if people don’t read it that’s their prerogative. Thanks for liking though, makes a difference!
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It’s called apostrophe 2! All the photos are mine.
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Grim, but edging on the truth. I spent Wednesday in the A & E (sectioned off from Covid arrivals – lots of ambulances arriving, I counted one every five minutes before the flow eased off in the afternoon).
Got home – showered and washed clothes, then counted my fingers. Now counting the days.
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I think this is a long haul type thing!
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Yoinks. I hope it doesn’t come to this…
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