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RE: STACH Short Story Contest #23: 199 words, 5 winners, 15SBD prize pool!

in #contest6 years ago

Bloody Red Sky

For Carlos, prison is a torment, he has not seen his family again. He plans to escape, kill the guards when they reach his cell and leave. When the guards arrive, the fight begins, the cell accidentally closes again, he stabs the jailers with the knife and Carlos suddenly falls to the ground, a strange feeling invad-ing his mind. He gets up, takes the keys and goes out, he looks around and is surprised to not see anyone, he runs to the exit, he is already out of prison.

Carlos runs home, suddenly feeling a void in his stomach, losing the air in his lungs he looks at the sky and sees that it begins to change from a crimson color to an intense red. The shouts of the guards on the other side of the cell tell Carlos to open the door, Carlos just looks at the ceiling of his blood-stained cell, beside him lie the two dead guards. He tries to get up and then he hears the sound of three shots, the last thing he saw in his mind was that the sky was getting redder, bloodier.