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Weekly Contest #203
(Mild Sensitive content including: Death, Swearing, violent destruction) I struggle to hear the desperate shriek over the sound of helicopter blades above my head. So close I fall to the ground before it takes me off my feet. Why am I outside? “Where are you?” I try to shout as loud as I can, but the thick smoke sticks in my throat, threatening to choke me before I can reach them. Disorientated and with a pain in my side that I didn’t have a minute ago, searingly hot. No time to check it out. I am sure that was a child I heard! I heav...
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