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ALL HOPE IS NOT LOST

ubongjPosted for Everyone to comment on, 5 years ago2 min read

Hey whales, hope we good. I'll be dropping a post I made sometime ago as an entry to a contest. A 199 word short story contest. It was to end with ALL HOPE IS NOT LOST. I really enjoyed the story I churned out real quick.

The narrative went along the lines of a crew member of a plane being the only survivor of a ghastly crash. His plane had come, crashed into a frozen wasteland. The plane's wing had scraped against a cliff and the wing had gone bad.

He seems alone and trudges on and on through the frozen mountains with very little. He seems hopeless and has no hope of surviving. He goes through the motions of their crash. Remembering every sad detail. He is jolted back to reality after a long while by a sound in the distance. Looking up he sees a light and realizes he still has a fighting chance of survival.


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I trudge along the snowy wilderness....

My snow boots sink deeper and deeper into the snow with every step I take. I do not breathe pure oxygen anymore. It's a solid combination of frost and oxygen.
For miles I don't see anything, just a desolate iceland. I have been trekking for days, days I have lost count of. Traversing this icy hinterlands with nothing save for my compass,hiking gear and ten energy bars I have salvaged from our crashed plane.

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We were headed for the Himalayas. A fierce blizzard had reduced visibility and our pilot had flown blind for half an hour, leaving us to the hands of fate.
Fate didn't keep us airborne for long as our planes wing scraped against the side of a cliff and down we plunged.
Long story cut short, our plane crashed and I was the only surviving crew member.

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So here I am in this icy wilderness blowing with a devilish blizzard.
A sound jolts me back to reality as I plug along.
There's a light in the distance. As I inch closer I recognize the outline of a human form besides a fire.

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ALL IS NOT LOST afterall.


Last post I guess for #thebeast challenge

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