Personal Narrative: Life After War

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10 years after the war..

As I walk in the house from a long, exhausting day at work, I plop down on the couch. I can see the moon’s bright beams seeping in through the livingroom bay window and onto the floor. I hobble ungracefully upstairs to my sleeping children’s rooms and kiss their foreheads goodnight. Then make my way back down stairs to mine and my wife’s warm, cozy bed. I can feel a cool breeze sweeping through the house. When I get to my bedroom I see her wrapped up tight in the covers. The outline of her body can be seen through the fabric, she’s wrapped up so tight. I decide to leave her alone and sleep without covers tonight. As I lie down, I slowly drift off to sleep.

Suddenly the sun’s beating down on my face and I roll over to block the nuisance. My …show more content…

I try not to talk to them, but I can’t quiet my mind, only my mouth. They tell me horrible, nasty things. Devilish things. And show me only the most grotesque images. Ones that make me want to scream. They torture me on purpose. They are out to get me. I scratch, pick, and rip off every bite those little suckers give me as way of rebellion. In my mind I ask them if they want another piece of me. But truthfully, I’m too frightened to say one word to them, so I continue rebelling silently. On the fifth day, I break. I tell everyone about how the filthy, mutants are homing in on me. Swarms of these suckers, all out to get me. No one’s doing anything about this. I keep on talking in hopes of someone’s help, but I feel like everyone thinks I’ve lost it by the way they’re looking at me. Maybe I have, but this is real to me. I’ve already let them suckers know I’m here by telling everyone, so I have to get help now. Otherwise speaking would have been for nothing. I have to tell someone of this in case they get me. In case I go missing. I decide to tell Mitchell Sanders. I tell him how I’m scared and about the heinous images and thoughts given to me. About the way I see things now.

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