9/11: A Short Story

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My eyes were welcomed by the sour, dull color of grey on an early morning. I opened my eyes and just started seeing things clearly when I realized it was 11:30 A.M.! So much for that early morning... What was I going to do? I had a doctor's appointment at 9:00, I was supposed to start work at 6:30, and I had a car appointment at 11:00! To top it all off I was supposed to return back to work till 7:30 p.m.! How could I have possibly slept in so late! I turned to look back at my alarm clock, and it read that it was 11:30 P.M. That is so strange; I went to my phone to check the real time and it read 11:30 P.M. Wait...That can't right be my alarm clock just said it was 11:30 A.M. Then, I looked back to check my alarm clock and noticed I did not read whether it was morning or night. My alarm clock also read that it was 11:30 P.M. I decided to open my curtain and look out the window when...Wait...Where did my window go? Why don't I have my window here? What is going on? The news must have an article or something to explain all of this nonsense. So, I went to my computer to pull up the news when it wouldn't work. Why would it …show more content…

People can't be just gone because we have no quartz. A familiar metal airplane flew above me and dropped another crumbled piece of paper into my palm. The message had read that is was a message from the capital? Who is that? That is from the Hunger Games. That is just a book. The message also had another piece to it that said, "District 7 will no longer be needed and shall die. I'm not in the Hunger Games. Than a speaker went off through the whole city. All work will be exempted. Quartz mines will be closed and a reminder that death appointments are tomorrow. Mines will no longer be in use due to the shortage and extinction of quartz.. The capital will schedule you death between 10:30 and 1:30 based on sundials due to the shortage of quartz we no longer have time available to

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