5 minutes on the timer.... BEGIN!
I've often thought what life would have been like had I been born in another zone. What kinds of opportunities fate might have afforded me. Everyone in my station had been born to breed- love wasn't an option for us. And now that I was approaching maturity, I would be shipped off to mate, every year. After labor, my child would be taken and my body would be given six weeks to recover before preparing to mate again.
It was cruel. If we were to just be used as cattle, they should have spared us the pain of growing up together, having emotions, fantasies, and experiencing the first taste of sexual awareness.
But they wanted that. They wanted our bodies to be flooded with hormones and desire so that we would be primed and ready for bearing the next generation.
I couldn't bear the separation from him. I knew that, and took the risk willingly, crossing into the Blue Zone under the cloak of night, hand in hand with my love.
If successful, we would have a new life.
If discovered, we would be executed.
The sound of the alarm alerted us to our fate.
I know that "blue zones" have a very specific meaning hahaha and that I didn't write about THAT kind of blue zone - but that's the beauty of the prompts from freewrites. You can let your mind wander and use any inspiration that comes. I always tend to go dark, lol. and I'm fond of dystopian themes, too. so - that was the basis for my freewrite today! Hope you enjoyed it. Somedays, it is VERY hard to squeeze a concept into 5 minutes!!! hahaha Today was one of those days
This is my second 5-minute freewrite of the week, thanks to the encouragement from @samsmith1971! hehehe One more to go! Thanks for pushing me to write Miss Sam!
If you'd like to join in the fun, be sure to follow @mariannewest - she has been giving us daily prompts to prod writers for 1643 days now! hehehe This post was from Day 1643: 5 minute free write- BLUE ZONE