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An Unguarded Moment
by Paul Francis Mc Cann
Saturday, May 24, 2025

Rated "PG13" by the Author.

       
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     Unpredictable moments come and go without warning
leaving memories that we never forget .


Driving downhill to the town at midday as the thunder and lightening was going on .
I saw the lightening strike in front of me and a large the white ball of energy hovered about ten feet off the ground .
The next thing I saw was telegraph poles moving back and forward with all the overhead power wires aggressively wriggling in waves all the way up the hill .
Time seemed to stand still as I watched in slow motion a huge tree in a field on the left side of the road about 25 yards in front me start to fall down towards the road in front of my car .

I hit the brakes hard and came ti a stop centimetres away from the trunk of the tree that had blocked the entire road .
I got out of the car and heard music but had no idea where it was coming from .
I stood beside the fallen tree .
The thickness of the tree trunk was about my size as I Tstood beside it . There was no other traffic on the road . Suddenly a
horse bolted out from a paddock nearby and galloped towards the tree and with a massive leap it jumped over the tree trunk lying across the road .
The smell of something burning was in the air .
With no where for me to go I climbed up and sat on the tree trunk .
Then two people appeared from nowhere and started to argue . As they were screaming four children arrived , screaming and crying .
I called over to them , but they completely ignored me as if I wasn’t there . After a shirt while I heard sirens and coming down the road I saw the flashing lights of a fire engine and an ambulance.
Then a rescue vehicle arrived . They asked if I was injured and I told them I was ok .
The rescue team started push g chain saws to cut up the high tree that blocked the road
About half an hour later the tree was removed from the road and I was told I could to drive away but to go slowly as there was a car accident on the road ahead .

Then I saw the terrible scene that haunts me to this day . The bodies of four children were lying on the side of the road covered in blood , beside them were the bodies of two adults and a dead horse that lay on top of a car that had been squashed by the horse .
That evening on the news there was a story of an entire family who had been killed in a tragic accident by a horse who landed on their car .

The End

By Paul McCann
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Reviewed by Ronald Hull 5/25/2025
This sounded like it could've been a real event until you got to the ending and all of the horse had killed a family in a car. It was really too far out to be believable.

But please, if it is a true story, let me know.

Ron

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