Prompt #188: Black Smoke
I Am Feeling | Awake 
Title: Black Smoke
Author: BehrBeMine
Fandom: Original
Rating: R
Word Count: 394
Prompt: 15minuteficlets Word #188
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As the child neared the soldier, she became more bold with every step. He could see an explosive attached by duct tape to her tummy which was exposed, as she was wearing no shirt. A child of eight or nine, on a death walk, ready to take him down with her.
The soldier's stomach flip-flopped for the minute second in which he didn't react. And then he was shouting orders at the officers around the area, calling for help, begging for strategy. Knowledge was leaking from sweaty pores out of his head. He was at a loss, and the child was nearly forgotten in his panic. His legs threatened to give out as he spotted her shaggy, dark and unruly hair duck behind the door of a stationery vehicle in the street.
Because of the ensuing blast, it was the last thing that he would see.
The Captain went deaf due to the explosion, realizing with horror that he had men down, civilians injured, and a child who had committed a crime and died for a cause she couldn't have understood.
The car parts, after raining back down onto the asphalt from where they'd been blown into the sky, sizzled with smoke, all things charred black. It was the heart of war; void of color, stripped of meaning; it was simply death. Dead bodies with missing parts sprawled outside of the bombed area; civilians looking like limbs of ashes trapped beneath wheels, a windshield, various broken glass, and all other parts of the car, now ruined, that would never run again.
It wouldn't run, but the new recruit, Tex, ran from the horror in the eyes around him. He ran from his Captain's orders that barked to claim him where he stood, but all that he could comprehend was that he had to get away, and that his feet would be his only vehicle. Propelling through the streets at random, a mouse trapped in a lab maze, Tex's desire to get away just wasn't going to happen.
He ran by a young man who was taken with Tex's uniform, snatching Tex and keeping his arm in a death grip for the few seconds before another explosive set smoke in the air to bring blackness to the sky. There was death, only death, and so few, like Tex, would live for the telling of it.
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Title: Black Smoke
Author: BehrBeMine
Fandom: Original
Rating: R
Word Count: 394
Prompt: 15minuteficlets Word #188
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As the child neared the soldier, she became more bold with every step. He could see an explosive attached by duct tape to her tummy which was exposed, as she was wearing no shirt. A child of eight or nine, on a death walk, ready to take him down with her.
The soldier's stomach flip-flopped for the minute second in which he didn't react. And then he was shouting orders at the officers around the area, calling for help, begging for strategy. Knowledge was leaking from sweaty pores out of his head. He was at a loss, and the child was nearly forgotten in his panic. His legs threatened to give out as he spotted her shaggy, dark and unruly hair duck behind the door of a stationery vehicle in the street.
Because of the ensuing blast, it was the last thing that he would see.
The Captain went deaf due to the explosion, realizing with horror that he had men down, civilians injured, and a child who had committed a crime and died for a cause she couldn't have understood.
The car parts, after raining back down onto the asphalt from where they'd been blown into the sky, sizzled with smoke, all things charred black. It was the heart of war; void of color, stripped of meaning; it was simply death. Dead bodies with missing parts sprawled outside of the bombed area; civilians looking like limbs of ashes trapped beneath wheels, a windshield, various broken glass, and all other parts of the car, now ruined, that would never run again.
It wouldn't run, but the new recruit, Tex, ran from the horror in the eyes around him. He ran from his Captain's orders that barked to claim him where he stood, but all that he could comprehend was that he had to get away, and that his feet would be his only vehicle. Propelling through the streets at random, a mouse trapped in a lab maze, Tex's desire to get away just wasn't going to happen.
He ran by a young man who was taken with Tex's uniform, snatching Tex and keeping his arm in a death grip for the few seconds before another explosive set smoke in the air to bring blackness to the sky. There was death, only death, and so few, like Tex, would live for the telling of it.
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