Prompt #84 - Ice | "Cryogenic"

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Title: Cryogenic
Challenge/Prompt: #84 - Ice
Original Fiction or Fanfiction: Original
Rating: G
Disclaimer: I do not own old people.
Summary: There is ice in her joints.

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While global warming makes men mutter, her own cooling begins. There is ice in her joints, a grinding, cracking mass that crunches in the same way and with the same sound as the snow that coats her three steps each year between December and February. It is a growing stiffness, a steady slowing and freezing—these are the knees that sank the Titanic.

She laughs when people talk of medicines and reparations and longevity, as if this is something she might want to change. People thrust millions into rubber-gloved hands to seek frozen eternity; she is doing it for herself.