We Are Recovering

• Jack Ritchie, Grade 6
• Short Story
• 2017

We Are Recovering
Chapter 1
Running
BANG, BANG, is the sound Zorba hears in the middle of the night, as his parents come running in.
‘Mum, dad what is happening at this time, at night? ` Zorba asked.?
‘Bad people are attacking,’ his father replied.
‘We need to get out of here!’ his mother urged.
BOOM, the noise was deafening mainly because it was the neighbour’s house. They just got out of their house in time to see it being blown up by the bombers overhead.
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We ran, hard, as hard as we could to get to the boat of my homeland, our homeland. Leaving this place, our homeland, which now has become a warzone of screams, death, and guns of destruction…