Short Story
Letter from the other side
Dear Mariana, I hope you don’t cry when you read this, though I can’t demand much of you from where I’m writing. It’s interesting, I find the simple notion of writing to you from here unbelievable. I, who always thought that “here” did not exist.
By Natalia Perez Wahlberg3 years ago in Fiction
The Fire Escape
“Stop, Police!” The girl heard behind her as she hurled herself down the alley. She didn't stop, she didn't even look back. “Great" she thought “This was not in the plan.” She leaped like a cat over the low stone wall at the end of the alley and smiled. “No matter” she could lose them in no time. She knew this city better then anyone. And besides, she was fast. Before the war, when she was only ten, she had been the fastest runner in her school. She wouldn't get caught, she couldn't get caught. A girl, alone, out after dark, without a permit. She shook her head “No.. she wouldn't get caught.” “Do they know I stole the locket?” She wondered. “Probably not, It's just a patrol" Her hand went to her breast pocket, and she felt the hard, heart shape of the locket beneath the fabric. She could get a good price for it at the underground market tomorrow, of that she was certain.
By Grace Bisaro3 years ago in Fiction
Dear diary
Dear Diary, No one knows what really happened. The conspirators argue what caused things that went wrong in the year 2050. Some say it was the chem trails in the sky or the vaccines that they mass produced during the covid era. The most possible one I heard was the genetically modified food that the government ordered to produce for the increase of population. When the population rose the government installed the rules for the new generation. My generation now suffers under this government ruling. We can only have one child per family and food rations are given out accordingly from our family statues. This is for stopping the rise of population, but the only problem is that everyone around me is dying from unknown causes. It's been happening for months now. Not only is the mass population declining at a disproportionate rate, but I think that the government is behind this. I need to know more to find the truth. They say that we need to put our trust in the big government, because they know more than us and we must trust the government at all costs.
By Liz Mccory3 years ago in Fiction
Driver's License
“What do you have to be heart broken about? You’ve never even had a boyfriend.” her friend told her laughing. The song playing over and over ran in her eardrums. I know we weren’t perfect but I’ve never felt this way about someone… you said forever, now I drive alone past your street” She knew all too well what that felt like. She closed her eyes as memories flooded her mind. The hours that they had spent driving around endlessly, just talking about anything. About Everything. He knew her better than she knew herself sometimes. He was her best friend. She smiled as she remembered how hard he would laugh at her bad jokes. The way he would get excited about telling her about a show or a song that he loved. She didn’t see him get that excited very often. It was refreshing and it always made her smile.
By Hope Davis3 years ago in Fiction
Lonely Road
J une 16th, 2100. I stared down at the small broken body that lay dying in my arms. In her hand, she held the blood-covered heart-shaped locket I had given her on her 12th birthday before our parents had died six years ago. I should have stayed with her in the small broken-down shelter we had found off the main road. It was not much, and slowly was deteriorating, but it kept us safe from most of the elements. But as a warrior, I did not stay, I chose to go and fight in a battle that was not even my own. I arrived home that night to see her attackers defiling her body. She was beaten to the brink of death. I saw red at that moment and slaughtered each one of them without a care in the world. I just sat there in a pool of those monster's blood while I held my dear sister as she took her last breaths. I shouted as loud as I could into the heavens and the sky opened in a wild force pouring down on the scene around me. I vowed that day to never stop destroying the cruelty that had survived the fall of the world.
By Margaret Todd3 years ago in Fiction
Aftermath
It had been ten years since the world governments implemented their “New World Order”. The total world population had been reduced to just over one billion people and spread out equally around the planet. This was achieved by introducing a virus upon the planet, thus creating a world-wide pandemic. The people were killed by telling them that they had a vaccine for the virus. Those that received the shot were dead within four years. The instigators knew that enough people would refuse the vaccine thereby ensuring they would have a suitable population of strong and healthy workers.
By Lonnie Larson3 years ago in Fiction