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I Am Feeling Intense Heat

Written by Carol Wellman

My mind tells me that I am feeling intense heat; not just the heat from a quick sunburn on a hot summer day, but the heat as if a 1000 degrees are engulfing my body and I am melting. I can't breathe, there is no sound , I can't hear anything except for the crackle of the flames.

I smell the night; can dark smell like anything? It is mildly cold, I see my breath, but am I alive or dead? I am burning up and no one else shares that with me.  Where are they?

I finally kick my foot, is that the steering wheel that is by my foot? What am I sitting on? It feels lumpy--I kick again and  hear a moan, it is a sound-I find my hand and move it towards what I think is my legs-I feel cold, yet incredibly sweaty-is this blood?

Do I feel anything? Is there any pain? I hear a voice, "mommy, crawl out here". It is my 6 year old daughter and she is showing me a hole in the side of the car that just rolled over 6-7 times as it shot through the air on a dark, lonely night in the back woods of Pennsylvania.  I crawled as the heat engulfed and ate up my car.  We walked until we could walk no more-the sirens came and we were safe at last.

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