Challenge
Challenge of the Month V: March
Close Encounter. A gunshot wound barely survived. A disease in fateful remission. A reaper, narrowly evaded. Write about a close encounter with death. $100 purse to our favorite entry. Outstanding entries will be shared with our publishing partners. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
My Fears
Cloudless but cold,
I could see a moving wall deadly still.
Echoes of sorrow seemed to be in the air.
Feeling gloomy with a shaky voice
What voice speaks among the stones?
Halting and peering
From where I spent a warm and comfortable night
Numbered among the dead.
I feel sick even without a wound.
At the hour of my last breath,
I cough and everything seems surreal.
I close my eyes and can’t seem to open them
It is dark and cold
And suddenly i see red everywhere.
Oh the fire burning and scorching my skin.
I stay there helplessly wailing.
In front is a dark figure,
Standing and laughing cynically.
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