Lethal Combination

short-story-thumbsVehicle

Looming

Uncontrolled steering.

Shiny

Ornate

Driver Leering.

 

Lurching

Dangerously

Encouraged by friends.

Speed

Alcohol

Not watching the bends.

 

Brainless

Show off

Skidding and braking.

Burning

Rubber

Poor calculating.

 

Sickening

Crash

Crushing the wheel.

Mangling

Warping

Splintering steel.

 

Screaming

Groaning

Someone is crying.

Broken

Limbs

A man lies dying.

 

Ambulance

Sirens

Families sobbing

Injury

Serious

Unbearable throbbing

 

Emergency

Busy

Barely able to cope

Doctors

Nurses

Trying to give hope

 

Vehicles

Smashed

Lives are in tatters

Investigation

Coroner

Criminal matters

 

Senseless

Carnage

Such waste of life

Families

Shattered

Unbearable strife

 

Lights

Flashing

Night slowly descends

Eerie

Silence

Blocked off at the bends

 

And the wreckage lies strewn

of another mangled ruin.

 

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