Created For The ShortShots Contest: June

It started on the day of June 16th, the terrible day that flipped my life upside down. It was the day that my whole family died and I was the only one left. I felt completely alone in a world filled with people.

What has happened, God? Why did you do this to me? I am left alone with no one and now i know what I must do, since I have no one. YOU LEFT ME WITH NO CHOICE!!!!!! I was on my knees, tears streaming down my face, my face towards the sky, and talking to god as best i knew how.

It was two days after I had walked into the house to find my six-year-old sister, 8-year-old brother, and my parents all dead and bleeding on the kitchen floor. The funerals were over and I felt terribly lonely. The sky was spitting down freezing raindrops and the wind was whipping my hair like cobras ready to strike.

Suddenly, a lightning bolt struck the tree that I had been sitting under and the tree caught on fire. I knew that I was going to die if I didn't move, but that was exactly what I wanted. So I waited there just hoping that I would die quickly and join my family.

I had one thought before a flaming tree branch fell on me with amazing force. God help me and forgive me.

I woke up in a hospital two weeks later and started crying. I had not died. I had lived.



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