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Basically I have a series of short stories based around an element. I was thinking of extending and connecting them.
Here are two of them
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The Water
The water rushed in my lungs, cold and fierce. the darkness spread through my vision. I was losing my consciousness, I knew I was. No fear. No regrets. No thoughts of hope or success. I was going to die. I felt the water invading my mouth, my nose, my ears, I could not get away from it. This is my grave, my watery grave that i was cursed to never leave. I managed to stay up a little but the waves pulled me down not wanting me to go. Sirens. In the distance, but too far. Not close enough to help me I was going to die here, There was no hope left. The darkness engulfed my vision and everything was black. This was the end.
Light Flooded my vision, too quickly. I was in a bed but I still felt as though I was in the water still. My body felt like jelly. The room was sterile white and plain. there were voices nearby in a hall maybe, but I could not make out the words. Two people were sitting across the room one on a couch the other on a chair, but both asleep. I had a migraine and my lungs hurt, when i breathed deep they burned. But I still had doubt that this was real. I was probably still in the water, in my watery grave. Dead.
The Flames
I remember so vividly…
The smell of smoke filled my nostrils as I was awoken abruptly by distant screams. But they weren’t distant. They were all around me. Slowly I arose out of my bed and walked to my door. I grabbed the door handle and pulled my hand away instantly. The handle burned with unknown heat. I coped with the pain though and opened the door.
The whole room was engulfed in flames, they were everywhere. The started or accelerant nowhere to be seen and was unknown to all. I ran to my mother’s room when I remembered she was still at work. She hadn’t even come home yet. Shock ate through me, slowing my reactions. Impairing my thinking. I felt the heavy smoke ever present in the flame polluted air searing my lungs. My consciousness was the will of the heat and lack of clean oxygen. The smoke inhalation got the best of me as everything went dark but burned bright.
