Writing prompt week: It's a hit!
Responses to yesterday prompt include a story the wife sent based on the Edith/Caleb prompt (which again, I'm not allowed to share), and both Switching Over to AM and Butchered Paper posted their own story based on the prompt (more of you may have done this too, please let me know if you did). So why not, let's keep this prompt party going. Today's?
Write about a heart that wouldn't quit.
The heart transplant that transpired at St. Augustine's on October 3rd at 8:13am was, for all intents and purposes, normal. But as the Igloo cooler containing the heart was whisked down the hall of the third floor the truly observant would have noticed that heart rates around the third floor speed up slightly, that patients could be overheard commenting on the lime Jello's unusually sweeter taste, and that empty bedpans around the ward sparkled more than usual.
The heart being transported in the Igloo cooler had previously belonged to Derick Mulroon, a professional snowboarder who had competed in the X-Games seven times from 1998 to 2005 (missing 2003 because he had gotten more intoxicated than usual and had somehow woken up the next morning in the neighboring state of Utah, behind a 7-11). Derick had lived his life on the edge, to the extreme and without limits. Needless to say, when Derick Mulroon danced, he danced like no one was watching. Unfortunately, Derick Mulroon's life ended much the same way it began: struggling, screaming, and inside a woman. He was 34 and two days after he died ESPN2 aired a retrospective on his life.
The recipient of Derick Mulroon's heart was Tobin Tobler Jr., a sales executive at Blumner & Broderick Ball Bearings Inc. Tobin Tobler Jr. did not live his life on the edge. Nor did he live his life to the extreme. And it goes without saying that when Tobin Tobler Jr. danced he assumed that everyone was watching.
And so, on the evening of October 3rd, as Tobin Tobler Jr.'s blood was finally getting used to beating through Derick Mulroon's heart, Tobin Tobler Jr. was struck with a curious sensation that he had never felt before: He had the urge to go snowboarding.
