Challenge
Challenge of the Month X: October
The Final Countdown. You wake up one morning, to a disturbing message. You're not sure how you know, or who else knows, but you know beyond a shadow of a doubt - humanity has 7 days left. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose. $100 purse to our favorite entry. Outstanding entries will be shared with our publishing partners.
Clocks
Seven
Seven days to bare my soul.
Six
Six days to hide the fear.
Five
Five more nights that I refuse to close my eyes.
Four
Four days left of bitter, wasted breath.
Three
Three more days and I’m frozen, staring at the clock,
the hands that refuse to stop.
Two
Two more days. I’m starting to wish I never was.
One
One day. Can you hear it?
The silence?
I start to scream. I won’t die quiet.
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