TITLE: Adult
GENRE: Secret
The sky peeked into the window, turning from the pale blue of the bright day, to an unnatural forest green. Mela swore, turning her back to the infirmary overcrowded with potential corpses.
Her assistant lingered in the aisle, carrying a bucket of vomit and mumbling about the short supply of beds. “With all these children moaning about, we had to put the babies on the floor. And the elderly—well, time was coming for them one way or another, right?” She looked up to find Mela frozen, and frowned deeply. “What is it now?”
“The spirits are talking.”
Ratu dropped the bucket on the ground, allowing little discolored chunks to splatter onto the hem of her dress. “Well, must we listen? After all they’ve done?”
“They might mean to give us a cure.”
“Or they’re doing what they always do: provoking us.”
Miss Snark's First Victim
Fantasy
ReplyDeleteWhoa.I am afraid to know what happens next. So much splashing of yuck.
Fantasy.
ReplyDeleteSpirits talking, but I already had the clue from the not so normal name Mela
Fantasy
ReplyDeleteThe names, the spirits -- all sound like fantasy.
fantasy
ReplyDeletewas going for historical (like WW1) until the spirits.
Fantasy.
ReplyDeleteI thought maybe Dystopian, until the spirits.
Paranormal Fantasy.
ReplyDeleteThe sky peeking made me think fantasy. The spirits made me think paranormal.
Paranormal Fantasy.
ReplyDeleteThe sky peeking made me think fantasy. The spirits made me think paranormal.
Fantasy... historical or paranormal.
ReplyDeleteSpirits talking, not sure of the time setting
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ReplyDeleteDystopian.
ReplyDeleteNot sure, though. I'm basing that on the strange color of the sky and all the dying children and elderly.
PARANORMAL FANTASY.
ReplyDeleteWith the spirits talking to people and asked to change things.
Dystopian. With so much death all around, it has the feel of a dystopian novel.
ReplyDeleteFantasy, due to "spirits" and a green sky.
ReplyDeleteFantasy, due to "spirits" and a green sky.
ReplyDeletePost-apocalyptic
ReplyDeleteMaybe they've all been bitten and are about to turn into zombies?
Magical Realism
ReplyDeleteThe sky is practically personified, it acts, it turns colors. That's a bit further than fantasy usually takes it, so I'll go for magical realism.
Fantasy
ReplyDeleteSky turning green, spirits talking, names of the characters...
Horror.
ReplyDeleteWeird sky, bucket of body stew, dead and dying. And those spirits speaking up.
Paranormal
ReplyDeleteThe spirits are talking. What I can't decide on if this is historical or dystopian, but I'm certain it's not modern because the infirmary, bucket, and the inability to treat the patients all suggest a lack of modern medicine and technology.
Paranormal.
ReplyDeleteNot sure. Reads Horror-ible to me. But maybe Paranormal (spirits). Maybe historical (during some plague episode).
ReplyDeleteMy guess is Fantasy because of the mention of spirits talking. There are elements of historical with antiquated medical treatment and buckets of vomit splattering on hems of dresses. Could be dystopian, too, because it's obviously not a pretty scene. It's pretty vague so far with a lot of different hints thrown in.
ReplyDeleteFantasy/Sci Fi - Ugh...the vomit, the cure, the spirits. Whew. Vivid imagery.
ReplyDeleteFantasy. Spirits.
ReplyDeleteParanormal.
ReplyDeleteBecause spirits are talking, or at least trying to communicate.
Paranormal. Spirits.
ReplyDeleteFantasy because of the spirits talking
ReplyDeleteI'd say it was half/half--it's Fantasy! I see why people thought paranormal, you know, ghosts and spirits and such, but that's not the direction of the story. Thanks for all the guesses!
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