The Bucket List (ONC 2026)
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ONC 2026
Prompt 84: You were hired to be their companion, nothing more, but as their illness worsens, you're caught between responsibility, longing, and the ache of knowing you can't save them.
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(UPDATE May 2nd 2026 - I dedicate this story to the F1 driver and paralympian Alex Zanardi who sadly passed today. Alex's story is a real one of triumph over disaster.)
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Cat's nursing career has been tanked by her strength to call out a senior colleague who was under the influence of alcohol in an emergency operating theatre. It is Cat's nature to stand up for what she believes in regardless of personal cost.
Planning her next move a recruitment notice catches her eye and she responds to it.
Jeremy Churchill, a distant relative of Winston himself. At 27 years old and a fly-half for the Northampton Saints Rugby Club a routine xray after a heavy tackle has blown his world apart.
She slowly starts to battle professional detachment for friendship, and attraction and desire for something more.
He trades sullen silence and self pity for moments he realises it's not the sword of damocles hanging over his head.
Final word count : 32,694
UPDATE
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