Drama Fiction Historical Fiction

A war has just begun, bombs are falling from the sky,

children are running in fear, women are being beaten and raped.

I saw three men yesterday who were hung to death just because they were gay. My name is Luke, I used to be a journalist before the war now I can barely even walk the street without having to duck for cover.

Yesterday the soldiers were picking up citizens to join their fight by force.

There was one man who said no to this and ran off but he was shot in the back of the head. We have a couple dozen people who want to start a rebellion against this, it would be very hard but the outcome would be great if we could pull it off. I was walking to the food line and I ran into a good friend “Luke we need to talk“he said, kind of nervously but exited at the same time “Hey John how are you” “ Great we finally have enough people to really do this will you join us?” he was talking about the rebellion to end all of this. If we did it there would never be any more of this violence and terror, that’s what they would alway’s say at least. But we couldn’t be totally sure of that “Who are the other people you keep talking about I haven’t even met them” “you will, follow me” We started to walk down this old dark ally that i never even knew was there I’m guessing thats why they picked this spot because nobody in there right mind would ever think to go in there, we ended up in this under ground type bunker. It ended up being a smarter plan then i ever thought. We weren’t going to go around shooting and killing off all the soldiers, we were going to slowly sneak out to get person-per-person and just leave. We were in Africa, and we were gonna go to Europe. We started to study the soldiers and what they did at what time, where they went and what time they would go to sleep and get up and how many of them were up keeping watch at that time. We were a mix of all different types of people, we had doctors and lawyers other journalist and even a congressmen from the states. Before the war started a bunch of high up people came to Africa for a big political meeting over a peace treaty, right when this meeting started thousands of rebels took over and they killed a lot of people but they kept anybody that had any type of power in the world. If we could find out where they were it would not only be much easier to leave and find a place to hide, it would help us be able to end the war and fix the peace treaty .We had a couple ex-soldiers who had escaped so they knew where some of these people were. The war was spreading they started to move into a couple other countries but they hadn’t gotten to Spain yet so we agreed to go there as soon as we get as many civilians as we can and at least one of the political leaders they were holding.”Luke we should start getting ready to go“ said John. We were first going to try to get the civilians by acting like they have died at the time of the air-strikes. An air-strike hit so we went through all the smoke and told the people to follow us into the bunker, the town we were in was pretty small so there really wasn’t too many people plus a lot of them were killed or recruited after the first two weeks. We got them safely into the bunker. “We should go back and make sure that there’s no one else out there before we go “ I said, so we ran back out and found a child around five or six years old, we quickly grabbed him and ran back inside, luckily his mother was inside, she thought that he had died in the air-strike. We then started to leave. We had a tunnel that the others have been digging for months, it led to a dirt road a couple of miles away, one of the guys had a phone so we called somebody to bring a car and have it waiting for us at the end of the dirt road. The last thing we had to do was go get the president of Spain. We new where they were hiding him and we were planing on going to Spain so it was perfect. John and I left to go find him, he was in a basement of a house in the town right next to us, so we went down there while the rest of the people went to go get the car and meet us down in the next town. We got there, the house was being watched by three men with guns. We had took some gas and bullets that we found back at the bunker so we lit one of the houses across the street on fire,

the men ran over to it trying to put it out but it was a pretty big fire so it took them a while. We ran into the house and grabbed the president and went out the back door, when we got outside the other guys were there with the car. As we drove away in the car, the president kept thanking us over and over for saving him. We got to an abandoned airport then we called our friend from Spain who knows how to fly a plane, he was waiting for us at the airport.

We got into the plane and right when we were taking off a bunch of soldiers started shooting at the plane luckily we got away and were able to escape to Spain. When we got there the President was welcomed in and brought into his home. They brought in a doctor to check everyone, then we were able to get started on ending the war. The President signed the peace treaty and sent a group of soldiers to find the others who were kidnapped. They found them all. The leader of the war turned himself in after he heard about the treaty being signed. Now everything was back to normal, the war was at an end, the treaty was signed between all the countries it couldn’t of been better. Two years later I went back to London where I am from, all of the houses and schools and hospitals were rebuilt it was truly beautiful.

They planted gardens and fruit trees everywhere, the children were playing in the parks, it was amazing. I was in London meeting one of the people who helped us get out during the war. I was working as a journalist again mostly just local stuff here in London but it is great, I live here with my wife and two kids now we finally are all together and safe. I went in for my meeting and sat down in her office and she asked me to come there to possibly take a job there. It was a non-profit organization who helped the people recovering from the war and rebuild anything in the community that was destroyed during the war. I took the job and within a year we have the town looking brand new we were all living peacefully it was like a whole new world.

Posted Feb 10, 2021
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Jessie Andrews
21:45 Feb 17, 2021

I think you have a good manuscript.
You should go back in and add the fluff.
You have The Who, what, where, and when.
What I am learning is to show the story, not to just tell it.
There are some work shops in here that can help with show not tell.
It will help bring your story to life.
Think of your story like a song.
Just a thought. Keep it up.

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Isaiah Frati
21:54 Feb 17, 2021

Thank you

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