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Prompt 484 -Creative
Tag – First Line
“Did anyone survive the accident?“

Prompt 485 – Creative
Tag – The Accident
It was a late night and you were driving home from work. You go to stop at the light, but your brakes fail, and slip through uncommon traffic and crash into the woods. What happened to you and what was the cause?

For this week, I decided to share both of the responses to Prompt #482

The door flew open with a loud bang, followed by a frantic Owen barging his way into the house. The garbage bag he was carrying snagged on the doorframe, ripping and spilling its contents all over the front hallway. He slammed the door shut and stood with his back against it, chest heaving. Sweat ran in rivulets down his pale face and his eyes were wide with fear.

I set down the lemon I’d been slicing and ran over to him. “What happened? What’s wrong?”

He pointed to our front yard shakily. “B…b…bees!” he managed to gasp out in between gulping breaths.

I raised an eyebrow. “What?”

“Bees! There are bees outside! Hundreds of them!”

“Do you really have to go?” Sam whined, wide big brown eyes begging like a giant Labrador.

Colt readied his passport and his ticket to CDG to join the queue for the security check, bustling hectically like bees in a hive. “You’re much better now, big guy.” Colt tried to smile.

“If you call ‘not dying’ ‘better’ then yes, but we’ll miss you …”

Colt felt a warm glow in his chest. He still couldn’t believe somebody would actually miss him. He had never been missed. His absence might have been noticed, because some work hadn’t been done, or done sub-optimally, or some work had to be allocated to an unpopular nerd without any sex life, but he had never been missed; painfully missed.