This Is Where I Died

[Lord_Shadow]

Her hands shook, the pain was unbearable, the beeping was growing louder and faster. She felt a lump in her throat. It was do or die, and she sure as fuck didn't want to die.

She took the gun in her hand, she tried not to think about what would happen if she didn't hurry. Calmly, slowly, carefully she brought the barrel at just the right angle. It was an uncomfortably poor contorted position to be in, but she had to do this.

Count to three

One...





Two...










Three...














Bang

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It was always the little things that hit the hardest, hurt the most, were the most inconvenient. It felt like an eternity waiting for the shot, it was so carefully aimed at her collar from above. She tried her best to angle it just right so as not to hurt herself.

And one little jolt of pain at the moment she pulled the trigger was the undoing of all that care.

Her body felt like it was on fire. She couldn't see it but she could feel the shot and assorted sharp and small bits rip through her arm and dig into her side. She didn't even hit the collar at all.

She screamed, a scream louder and more bloodcurdlingly primal than any noise she had ever made before. From the outside, if anyone heard it, it would probably sound like a banshee of myth.

One eternity of agony passed into the next with no end to the searing burning hellfire. Time stood still except for the sensation firing off every one of her nerves. Somewhere in that frozen time, the beeping ceased.

She felt, not heard, the explosive go off. Her throat, or rather what was left, filled with blood and gore. Her scream cut short and was replaced by frenzied gurgling. The blood quickly pooled around her head and matted her hair. She flailed about helplessly, desperation setting in for any sort of relief.

None came.

The light started to fade from her eyes, her flailing slowed and eventually stopped. The noise from her new throat cavity ceased. As her body shut down, a final thought came.

I tried

ES08: GENEVIEVE ERICKSON — DECEASED