The last thought of Jimmy Joe: The Ink Well Prompt #53: This week's...

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So for this weeks prompt of Headlights and challenge of hooking the reader, I would like to share with you a story that has been there, floating around in my mind like a ghostly layer of fine Gossamer threads for the past few days and only solidified into an actual story tonight as I thought that this was a very thought provoking prompt and challenging skill, so I hope that it works! 😱

So without further ado, I invite you to read The Last Thought of Jimmy Joe

I hope that you enjoy! 😃

Jimmy Joe suddenly woke to stabbing pain searing through, what felt like every single part of his body.

Slowly he opened his eyes, immediately feeling sick in the stomach as he saw lights of all shapes and sizes dancing a drunken jig in the snowing air around him.

Quickly closing them, he lay there wanting to vomit, but the excruciating pain that was radiating throughout his entire body was overriding the signals in his brain and his stomachs desire to vomit and he relaxed for a moment, wondering with full clarity what he was doing there.

Keeping his eyes closed, Jimmy Joe tried to remember what had happened. Just how he had gotten there- which at this point, was an exercise in futility- something that Jimmy Joe couldn't quite comprehend in this moment in time, for as astute as Jimmy Joe always thought he was, he wasn't and at this stage, the hows, the whys, the who's- well they were all totally irrelevant to his current situation.

Eventually, the freezing cold, some sense and logic crept into his dazed brain, reminding him to check himself over, as that little voice in the back of his head was reminding him that he couldn’t stay there and bleed out.

Somehow Jimmy Joe managed to dredge up some strength from somewhere and starting with his toes first, he clenched and released every joint and muscle in his body, each one screaming in pain as he tried to work out the direct source of the pain to gauge what type of an injury he had.

Very quickly though, Jimmy Joe realised that there was so much pain everywhere, it felt like his entire body had been shattered into a trillion slivers of red hot ice.

Using every ounce of strength he could summon, he tried to open his eyes and sit up, but it was way too dark to see anything- that's even if he did get his eyes open and far too quickly he thought he saw the same stars in his eyes dancing their drunken jig and passed out again.

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Moments later- or maybe hours later, Jimmy Joe wasn't sure, he woke up moaning as the pain and the memories came flooding back to him.

He remembered that he had been out there in the freezing cold night, snow falling all around them as him and his best mates Buddy, Billy Ray and Otis had been having a swell time driving around in Jimmy Joe's rusty old monster truck, empty beer cans rattling around on the floor and seats as they laughed and joked, pointing their fully loaded shotguns out through the windows, wildly firing at anything they thought they saw move in the headlights.

And after that - nothing. It was as black and empty on the inside of his mind as it was outside his body in the pitch black night.

With a seed of memory, Jimmy Joe opened his mouth and tried to call out for his friends, a dry, crusty film silencing his calls to a series of tiny gurgles and moans and within seconds, he gave up, losing more strength.

Jimmy Joe Lay in the cold snow and dirt, his breathing becoming more laboured and painful, a bubbling sound slowly rising to the surface and soon, that sound grew into a coughing fit and somewhere in his foggy mind, Jimmy Joe realised that the hot fluid sputtering out of his mouth was blood.

With all of his organs shutting down one by one, Jimmy Joe suddenly had the notion that something was standing over him and with utter terror, he dragged his eyelids open to see the pinkish Purplish colour of the inside of a very large mouth, with even larger and much sharper teeth roaring in fury just inches above his frozen face.

What was left of Jimmy Joes slowly beating heart sank straight down into his black and blue swollen stomach as he finally realised how he had gotten there.

As the headlights of his rusty monster truck bared down on him, Jimmy Joe‘s last thought on this earth was just how stupid he was to have so loudly and drunkenly crept into the den of a family of sleeping bears with his shotgun.

THE END

Well I hope that that got you hooked! But not in the way that Jimmy Joe was! 🤣

Thank you so much for reading my story, I really hope that you enjoyed it and look forward to your comments and thoughts!

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