Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Shot - Sweat (2012)

The young woman although a little taken back by the utterance, replied, “Hi,” and they shared a smile as the sun flashed off their sunglasses but brightened their skin. In just a blink, he could see them laughing in the comfort of a home that one day he would share with the woman of his dreams.

As he opened his eyes he saw a man sprinting in their direction. It was just an instance but the running man ran directly into the space between the young man and woman. Although it was light out, he could see ths dark figure running directly towards him. The running man knocked the young man a couple steps back, and in one motion, in one moment, in one movement, the running man smashed the girl with some black handle of a gun that looked like a new model of the standard gun most carried in this town.

Her blonde hair flashed up as if she was electrocuted as the robber ripped the woman's bag off her arm and she smashed down onto the street. The young man instantly unlatched his gun for the second time in his life. As a flash of the first time he ever unlatched his gun corrupted his brain, he fired two bullets at the man as he ran across Center Square Blvd.

The robber slowly fell to the ground, but the man saw something else far across in the distance. He could see a red, he only saw in spring flower, flowing down an elderly woman’s white blouse. He sprinted across the Blvd. hitting the robber to ensure he could not run away. He made it to the other side of the Blvd. in time to catch the woman before she hit the ground. But her white blouse had been erased by the flood flowing from her chest. It was too late, the bullet pierced through the woman’s chest and her pulse slowed as the strength in her body drifted away.

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The crowd scattered, and true chaos broke out in the streets. Each individual was hoping to find a secure place to avoid danger. The young man looked back, but he could not see the blonde woman through all the running legs of the townspeople. He ran in her direction as he gave a final blow to the robber that would ensure he would not rise anytime in the immediate future.

He could see the blond hair hanging from a bench on the side of the Blvd. Two young men and a female wearing the same outfit as the young blonde appear to be taking care of her. He could see her chest slowly rise, and deflate, but he had to get closer. After running through the crowd he saw her eyelids fastened motionless keeping her eyes shut. One of the young men was checking her pulse, as an ambulance picked up the woman They moved her slowly to a stretcher and began moving her into the emergency vehicle.

As the two men and young woman jumped up onto the ambulance to join the blonde, the doors simultaneously shut and the young man’s attempt to board the ambulance was denied. He stood there frozen looking at the pale red that now stained his hands.

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