9/11 Short Stories

Crack! I heard something huge crash on the port above. The whole world turned upside down and everything went black. “Father!” I yelled as dozens of precious lists and charts flew at my face. I was flung to my side and then was emerged in cold, white water.

I was thrown at the door and my heard a crunch to my right, but felt no pain because my whole body was numb to death. I tried to grab something I couldn’t move. I told myself calm down, calm down, calm down but my body and brain were frozen.

I finally surfaced the water and took what felt like the best breath I ever took in my life. I thought that I saw a face, no wait I did see a face. Maybe my vision was playing tricks on me when I hit something cold and fragile. It was probably Sophie,

but it happened so fast I didn’t get a clean look. I was still trying to grab something and finally got a hold of a piece of debris floating.
I saw my dad grab Sophie’s harness and pull Sophie back… down(185).

She landed on the navigation table and just stayed there, like she was frozen. I swam through the cold, cold water to save her. I have grown to quite like Sophie, she is not mean like the others, even though she does lie a lot.

“Cody Dock Cody Dock!” (185) She screamed.

Then I realized that Cody and Dock were up top when this harsh wave hit. I told myself to stay calm, don’t panic so Sophie would not freak out.

“They are up to.”(185) I whispered when I got there, even though I had no idea were. She must have said something after that but I could not hear her over the overlapping waves above and the growing pain in my arm.

I heard a soft thud to my right and saw Cody. His forehead had been split open and there was blood leaking all the way to his eye. The force of the wave had blown his head right into the wheel, gashing open his left eyebrow and nose.(186)

For the first time, I just frozen there thinking,”Cody is going to die, CODY IS GOING TO DIE.” I felt that I had lost control of my own body and that I too was going to die. There was a sharp pain in my body and I just sat down, crying, crying, crying.

When I woke up, I thought, “ When will this journey

end?”