A Short Story Revealed: A Narrative Fiction

I was a bit under seven when I was found. They had come with guns and flamethrowers, against my village’s spears and stone swords, but the members of our struggling village put up a good fight, but not for long. Us children were snagged up like leaves in the wind, and carried away. Most were knocking out by their captors to stop their screaming, I pretended to be as well, I was terrified to be hit in the head with one of their clubs.

I heard the man carrying me cough. His cough sprayed spit on my face, and I had to use every bit of my strength to not wince, “Heh, do ya think he’ll like this? Allen’s kid with us, maybe she’ll turn,” this man didn’t sound very nice, but what he said perked my interest. I had heard my daddy talk about turning …show more content…

Her smile turned into a grin, “Ahhh, you're a cautious one like me. Well personally I don’t believe any of this. It seems like there is something deeper going on here. I’ve heard other people talk about it, and sometimes they mention a revolt. I just don’t know anymore.”

I sighed in relief, “Me too. But we should head to bed,” I added, “They will skin us alive if they knew we were up this late, and tomorrow is a big day for you. Your first day officially here, a member of the last safehouse!”

The next day, the bell rang, waking everyone from every corner of the safehouse. People rose from their beds, groaning or mumbling about their dreams to their spouses or friends. Children were not so easily woken, and some were carried out.

I looked over at Rose who was in the bed next to me. She groaned and sat up, “Ugh, what time is it?”

“5:30,” I mumbled as I got up, “every day we get up at this time if you were wondering.”

Rose groaned, “Well let’s get …show more content…

May I remind all of you that the penalty for helping an infected person in, is death. Now please head to exercise.”

Rose followed me to the bathroom once again where a protector handed Rose her new exercise uniform. We changed and headed back out to the main hall, where the tables and chairs were cleared away and everyone started lining up on the lawn around the tree. Some of the protectors were on the outskirts of the lawn.

“Jog!” they called, and everyone started to jog around the tree.
For about ten minutes we jogged around the tree. Then we went on to push ups and sit ups. After about an hour of exercises the protectors called us back to our sleeping quarters to take a break, while assigning Rose, me, and a few others to clean