Standing on the gallows ground with the rough, tight rope around my neck.

The smell of death was everywhere.

For the last time, I looked up at the gloomy sky.

Suddenly, the executioner pulled the trigger.

I woke up.

Huh!

In his sleep, he’d kicked me out of bed again.

Mohammad S. Babaei is computer programmer who is also in love with English literature. He is so much into poetry and recently developed the same taste for short stories.