Format:
Bham Stocker - Dracula style consistent of journal entries, letters, receipts, witness accounts, reported news.
Title:
In The Blue House
Plot:
Beginning:
Lorraine is a middle-class working woman, age 42. She is currently in labor and being rushed to hospital by her husband Roy. BUT SUDDENLY! Roy runs a red light and is t-boned by an RV, there is then a six car pile-up in the intersection.
Lorraine bobs in and out of consciousness as she tries to shake Roy awake. Later she wakes up in a hospital and is alone in the dark, accompanied only by sound of machines. She slams her fist into the "call" button to get a nurse. When the nurse arrives she calms Lorraine down and turns on a light. BIG REVEAL! "There was an accident, witnesses say they saw your husband run a red light. You were hit by an RV, the drivers side of your car was crushed, six other car's crashed too. Your husband didn't make it, nor did your child. We did all we could, the operation would've killed you. I'm sorry" says the nurse. She is prescribed anxiety pills and sleeping pills
Middle:
Lorraine begins going to therapy to get over the accident. News of the crash was still hot on the air, and Lorraine watches it every time. Each time she goes to therapy she sees more and more danger outside. She begins skipping therapy sessions. She starts buying blue clothing from the internet. Roy loved blue, he wore blue to work every day and drove a blue car. When she wore blue it was like Roy was still around somehow. She felt comfort in it.
Eventually she stops going to therapy and work all together. She survived using Roy's life insurance money and by buying and selling her items online. She forces herself out of the house on the day of Roy's funeral, where everyone finds out that she's become a shut in.
She gets progressively worse, but more and more people try to get her outdoors. Her house is now entirely blue inside and out except in the baby's room and her bedroom (she never goes in there).
She's on the verge of suicide, she can't take the nightmares anymore.
End:
Her family and friends try to coax her out of her home and teach her how to keep herself safe. On the outside, Lorraine looks like she's doing really well but inside she's dying. She sees Roy's face on every man, she looks at every child longingly. She begins calling in sick to avoid going out but nobody believes she's really sick, she's forced out anyway. She begins actually getting herself sick and is allowed to take a few days off. Her illness doesn't let up. Everyone is trying to get her to go see a doctor. Lorraine barricades the doors, and goes up to her room taking with her the prescribed sleeping pills she'd stopped taking (She stopped taking them because she'd rather have a nightmare where she sees Roy, than no dreams at all). She let herself into the bedroom which remained the same from the night he died. She curled up in bed where she could still smell Roy, and took all of her pills. Her parents went on to join a charity for shut-ins, her friends spread her story, schools begin warning students and parents of this disorder, for a while things are very tense in her town as everyone fears that the same will happen to someone they know, but of course it all quieted down after the tsunami in japan.
I want to do this now, it's going to take a hell of a lot of research before I can start though. :D Thanks Amberlin!
