Emergency

the truck loses the brake static at the edge of the tank dragonfly floats stopped in stopped time children play unsuspecting and the sun knows nothing even in the shade there's something wrong the truck is far away but it comes the children are close they don't see that the dragonfly flies insect then as a missile penetrates the water someone is waving somewhere no one knows the pain that will come the insect comes out of the tank disappears into thin air the children scream in despair the old truck arrives all smoke these quiet cities always seem a disaster about to begin.

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L Milton Hankins

Date: 4/25/2022 7:29:00 PM

Frightening images all wrapped up in a metaphor for impending disaster. And the world suddenly changes for everyone and everything remotely involved. Well-written.

Marco Chies
Date: 4/26/2022 6:58:00 AM

It's a perspective that adds multiple angles. The truck rolls down a road, the children are playing without realizing the danger, the dragonfly dives into a water tank, someone notices the impending disaster, then the truck loses its brakes, it causes an accident and a small, peaceful town is convulsed by a tragic event.