To turn or not to turn, that is the question. My signal is flashing but my foot is hovering hesitantly over the brake. Going right at this junction will take me the quickest route into town, but the journey is dark and deserted. I’d drive for miles between areas with cellphone reception.

Going straight will take longer but the roads are more well lit. There are more buisnesses and neighborhoods and cell towers. Most importantly, this path leads me west at sunset and the sky is exploding with buttery reddish rays of light that brush softly against the underside of some dark heavy clouds. It looks like the sky is on fire and smoking. It’s particularly and unusually beautiful.

I decide that taking the scenic route is worth it. I ride into the sunset with the window down and a warm melody accompanying the breeze. When the world suddenly begins to roll I don’t have time to stop the car before I lose consciousness. It feels like only a blink but apparently I was in a coma for three and a half weeks.

My neurgosurgeon says I should have died — the aneurysm was what he termed “catastrophic”. My cardiologist claims it should have been “medically impossible” for my heart to keep beating even with the massive tear in one of my ventricles (or something). My family showed me pictures of the wreckage; it was all fire and smoke and it blended in almost perfectly with the sky.

Everyone said it was a miracle my body didn’t crumple and contort the way the car did. It was a miracle a state trooper happened to be posted right up the road, who saw the whole thing and managed to extract me from the car before the fuel tank ignited.

Miracles everywhere. That’s what they say.

I don’t know if that’s the case.

But I’m glad I let myself drive towards the sunset.

I’ll never know for sure but I really doubt there would have been a first responder just waiting and ready on that other road if I’d chosen to turn right.

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Lot of mistakes in this one but I just don’t want to lose my streak lmfao. Leave constructive feedback if you’d like but I’m just saying I probably know but just didn’t have the energy to tweak it.