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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. 
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Ellamorring

Near Drowning

I can't hold out any longer.

I can't make the climb-

I thought I was stronger...

They won't get here in time.

Hopeless, I breathe in.

The sun burns in my eyes.

Lungs like fire- how strange...

Covered in blankets as my body dries.

Hot outside, cold inside, immense pain.

They must have made it in time.