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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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ShuraGrimes

Live or Die

I hear a loud noise

Something enters my body

It enters with pain

I feel like I am fading

I feel hot, but cold all over

I feel like I have been shot down

I fall like time is frozen

Death Dances in my heart

It beats five times

Then accelerates like my heart will jump out

I see a bright light

I see two heavenly beings with wings

Could they be Angels?

Is this what Heaven is like?

I want to live!

But I no longer have the will to live

My sight is fading

I hear some noises

I can’t make the noises out

I can’t hear anything at all now

My body can’t move

I can only lay in the cold snow to what I believe my blood covers

I slowly close my eyes awaiting my death

Later I wake up to see…

It was not Heaven but a hospital room

With not just anyone waiting next to me

But my saviour… A little kid