RE: Day 292: 5 Minute Freewrite: Tuesday - Prompt: overslept

Very late to this one, but just under the 24 hours! Here is my 5-minute freewrite, managed to cut myself off on 4:55 just before I started something I couldn't finish!

Thank you very much! Here we have it:

_Overslept

_{She had overslept. In a way, she had wanted to.}

_{She couldn’t face getting up any more. Every day was just a little bit more, it was all too much.}

_{She started at the clock, flashing violently 11:00. She was a heavy sleeper, but she had really done it this time. Her shift had started at 9:00, she would have some explaining to do.}

_{She wondered why she put herself through it. The creative reasoning, the extra work she came in to. She had blamed public transport already this week, she needed something a bit more inventive.}

_{For once, life would provide her with a very good excuse. She had staggered into her trousers as she pulled on her tshirt. It hadn’t taken her long to get out of the house.}

_{Her entire street was full of stationary abandoned vehicles. There was not a single person in sight.}

_{Silence echoed through the housing complex, not a single engine revved in the background. There was no trace of the people, who had fled in the early hours.}

_{She had slept through the sirens, the megaphone announcements. She had missed the evacuation entirely.}

_{She smelt the distant hint of burning, and scanning the horizon, saw a billowing black tower of smoke dominating the city skyline.}