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Challenge of the Month VI: April
Something to Lose. What does it feel like to cherish something or someone with every fiber of your being? Is it terrifying, as though any second it could disappear? Or is it a source of comfort, solid ground to stand on, an anchor? Write about having something to lose. $100 purse to the winner. The best entries will be shared with publishers. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
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AprilSummers
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The Forgotten Queen

“I’ll do it all, everything on my own, I don’t need anything or anyone.”

I watched in pure horror as I saw my home burn and being swallowed whole under that harsh fire. The flames were so bright and intense, it lit the skies up. It was as if it was morning but I knew that, morning will never truly come for me, that this night will forever be ingrained into me. The pain I felt inside my chest was unbearable...I don’t think I’ll ever be able to describe how I was feeling in that moment. If I had to descibe it, felt as if a knife was stabbing me on my chest. Over and over again, as it carved out my heart and ripped it to shreds.

The heat radiated from afar and I could still feel the burning sensation. My face was wet with tears that continued to pour down like the endless rain, and the soot and ashes from the fire marked me as if I was whipped and I could feel the pain all the way in my bones. It was burning, the flames were eating up the one and only place I could ever truly call my home.

My mother...Ed...the old fart who I had just started to call my father...my friends, the townspeople...everything was being destroyed. Why...why...WHY!? Why would they attack us!? What did we do to them!? Mother and I lived our lives silently out of your sight. We lived just the way you wanted us to so...how dare you go back on your words and take everything I love away from me father!?

“Ai! Ai! Ai where are you!?” I heard Tristan call in the distance. I was starting to lose consciousness. I stretched out my hand in a last futile attempt to blow away the flames and save everyone. Please stop! Don’t take them...don’t take them all away from me! Mother!

“You must live on!”

Her voice and the bright flames made me close my eyes to pretend that everything was a dream but I knew..no matter how hard I tried to pretend that everything was a dream it wasn’t. I’ll live...I swear I’ll live on...only for the sake of revenge. I’ll kill him. I’ll kill that man that took everything away from me. Oh, but I won’t stop there. I’ll take away everything that you too hold precious and then and only then, will I have my revenge.

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