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Submitted to Contest #79
Our lives are like wildflowers. Here today gone tomorrow. Some people are the wildflowers, but some people are like the grasshoppers eating the wildflowers. Vicious, ravenous hungry creatures that only stop when there is nothing left. The earth shattering sound of a gunshot went off behind me. I could practically feel the cold sharp pain of a bullet between my shoulder blades, or at least that is how I imagined it would feel, and my ears were ringing with alarms and red flags. My heart skipped more than a beat and for a moment death seeme...
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