Excellent!
Here is my guest post. It is a short story I
wrote.
Life gets in the way
-a story of coincidence or fate, you decide.
by J. R. Wagner
It was winter. I was standing along side the slush-covered road
up to my ankles in wet, nasty, gray, polluted snow. My car, having just done a 360 in the
middle of the windy country road had found itself half on, half off the guide
rail. There was no getting
it off without some roadside assistance.
Fortunately, my auto insurance company rooked me into paying an
extra nine bucks a month for their roadside assistance and now, after six years
of never having a need for it (that’s $648.00 pissed away) it was time to cash
in. I reached into my
pocket to pull out my cell and realized (with a few expletives) that I’d left
it in my car.
I began trudging back toward my car. My feet had long since lost
any feeling in them and the impact of each step stung like a sonofabitch. As I passed the rear bumper, I heard
it. The scraping of a plow
truck barreling down the road. It
was coming from the opposite direction. The direction I’m facing.
I thought nothing of it, opened my car door as far as I could,
which was just far enough to squeeze my oversized head through and search for
the phone. Spotting it
quickly, I leaned the rest of my torso inside and picked it off the floor. The
radio was on. Nirvana was
playing. The sound of the plow grew louder as I extricated my self from the
car.
I shut the door and began walking back to my safety spot behind
my car on the opposite side of the guide rail so I don’t get run over by
another motorist or covered in a deluge of nasty tar and grime infested slush
from the plow. When I
reached my position, I flipped open my phone (yes, before the days of touch
phones) and began to dial.
I glanced up quickly as the giant yellow plow truck, yellow
light flashing, rounds the corner –now just a few hundred feet from my stranded
vehicle. He didn’t
slow. Assuming he will pass
by (perhaps he doesn’t see me at all, just the car) I began punching in the
number to the roadside assistance place. My un-gloved hands were stiff and
nearing on numb. As I went for the last digit, the phone slips out of my
hand. I curse and bend over
to retrieve the phone, now buried in six inches of road slop.
That’s when it hit me. It didn’t hurt –not then anyway. I felt something. I wasn’t exactly sure what but it was
enough to force me to stand back up, leaving the phone where it lay. Something warm was on my
forehead. Odd. Then it rolled into my eyes, which
felt even stranger yet somehow, the warm sensation was soothing in the freezing
environment. When it made its way into my mouth, I knew something was wrong.
It was blood. I
was all to familiar with that taste having had my wisdom teeth pulled not two
weeks earlier. My head began to spin. I
immediately reached for my head and felt a warm, sticky gash just beyond my
hairline. I could feel the
blood coursing out of the injury with every pulse of my ever-quickening
heartbeat. The plow had passed. I could hear it’s obnoxious diesel engine
growing faint in the distance.
I had to do something but I wasn’t sure what. I was confused and
growing more so. I needed
to stop the bleeding. I
stumbled for my car, remembering I stashed a first aid kit in the trunk. I fell
once but quickly regained my footing. I
reached the trunk only to find it locked. My keys…where were they? I searched my pockets with the hand
not applying pressure on the injury and found nothing but some cash.
I heard a song in the distance. I’d heard it before but couldn’t
recall the name. I was
becoming less and less lucid. My vision began to blur. I began to panic. I needed to call for help. My
phone! I remembered
dropping it in the snow. Quickly, I turned back to where I had dropped
it. There was a thick line
of blood in the snow from there to here. My God, so much blood. I began walking toward the largest
patch of red snow sure my phone was in there somewhere when I fell. This time I did not get up.
My strength was gone. My
head was buried in the snow far enough that all I could see was the reddening
of the snow in front of my face. I
was going to die. Rather
than pissed like I thought I’d bee if I’d met an untimely death, I was relaxed
–comfortable even. I just
wanted to sleep. I was so
tired. I shut my eyes.
Something warm touched the back of my neck. I hear shouting. I didn’t want to open my eyes. I
didn’t want to wake up. People were touching me, yelling at me. They rolled me
over. I saw light –the sun
maybe? Some blurred
faces. Lots of
movement. I heard a woman’s
voice –calming yet commanding. Someone
touched my head and I let out a scream I never knew I was capable of and my
world went black.
Epilogue
I lived. Apparently the plow hit a softball chunk of ice and
sent it hurtling at my head. The
driver never even knew I was there. It
turns out, the plow truck driver’s daughter was a volunteer for the local
ambulance company and happened to be driving home when she noticed the blood
along the road. She thought
someone had hit a deer. After
I was loaded in an ambulance and began my trip to the hospital, another car
came whipping around that bend in the road. There were two policemen, three
volunteer EMT’s and a tow truck driver standing in the road. The car provided little warning as it
slid across the icy surface of the road. One policeman, the tow truck driver
and an EMT were all able to jump to safety. The others, including the plow truck
driver’s daughter, were struck by the car. The policeman would never walk again,
the EMT suffered multiple fractures in both lower extremities and the plow
truck driver’s daughter was pinned against the guide rail (a la Signs). She managed to stay alive for twenty
minutes. Time enough for
her father to return to the scene and say goodbye to his daughter.
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Acestea fiind scrise direct de catre J.R.Wagner ,cu care am stat la taclale acum cateva zile,intr-un interviu.
Thank you so much for everything,mr. Wagner!
I hope you enjoyed our blog :) !
P.S.: Daca vreti povestea tradusa,sa-mi spuneti.O traducem repede :* !
5 comentarii:
hmm, cred ca ar fi mult mai bine si mai usor daca ati traduce, pentru cei care nu prea stiu engleza. Eu am reusit sa citesc umpic, iar pana acum e taare :x
foarte taree povestea <3,da,daa restul lumii vrea traducerea :) xD
suuper <3 dar eu cred ca ar cam trebui tradusa...
Cu siguranță autorul știe cum să facă o poveste și mai ales cum să țină cititorul în suspans.
Foarte frumoasă povestioară și cu un final pe măsură. Un happy end,așa cum ne place tuturor.
O zi frumoasă, fetelor!:*
Ce poveste!
Adică în prima parte cum să-şi uite teleofnul în maşină când avea aşa mare nevoie de el? Uite de asta telefonul trebuie ţinut mereu, dar mereu în buzunarul pantalonilor! Mai rău de fete la capitolul acesta.
Măcar pe tot fundalul acelui moment groaznic cânta Nirvana :))
Asta nu poate fi altceva decât pur ghinion! După ce că maşina lui e cum e, mai are şi un accident care îl lasă inconştient şi plin de sânge.
Ce pot să spun povestea e genială! Are nişte descrieri superbe şi totul e aşa minuţios! Foarte tare!
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