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Weekly Contest #218
This is it… I am dead.Aren’t I?I see the light that they all mention....The Bible thumpers mostly.The light at some tunnel after death. It’s getting closer, or am I getting closer to it?My head is throbbing. It feels like miners have been boring out a hole in it, prepping for the time, to drop a stick of dynamite in.Fuck , why am I feeling anything right now?I thought when you died, you never felt anything?Isn’t that the appeal of death?My Wrists… my God, the pain. I don’t want to be dead. Not like this.I hear what sounds like a siren , or m...
Weekly Contest #189
The nervous sweat pouring off me and dripping from my forehead, burning its way into my eyes. The smell of earth, potent. My fingernails are caked with dirt. Terrified, malnourished, and running from my last scene of a crime. I force myself to be quite. I’m hiding from a stranger whom I fear , I may know a little too well in the next few moments. Recollection of recent past , runs wild throughout my head. Hell, at least what I think has been the past. I really haven’t been too good with keeping up with the times, latel...
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