Tahiti's Attacks: A Narrative Fiction

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Walking turned into a running, then running turned into a weak sprint. As I was running for my life, I lost feeling in my legs, all I could feel was the stomach churning growl coming from my stomach. I haven’t ate in 32 hours since I have been on this island since the incident, in which everyone and everything I knew suddenly disappeared. It all started about one and a half days ago in the little island of Tahiti. It was such a beautiful and magnificent place, I was very ecstatic that my parents chose this vacation spot. Tahiti had been a stress relieving place since all of the nuclear bomb talk going around lately. This certain topic frightened me because the radiation would kill almost everyone and everything. A couple hours after arriving to my hotel room, I went to sit by the pool. After an hour of soaking in the warm rays that the sun reflects, I felt this really strong wave that left me breathless for a minute or so. As the suffocating finally stopped, I saw all the people around me drop. I automatically assumed that this is the work of the nuclear bombs, the wave must of been the radiation that had hit us in a very concentrated wave. …show more content…

Why am I semi-resistant to the radiation? These seemed to be questions I couldn’t answer. My next step was going around the little island of Tahiti to find if anyone else is resistant. As I run as fast as I could, my legs started to cramp and all the sudden they stopped. My legs were numb. I kept running through this unfamiliar terrain so I could reach my final goal of survival. I started to trudge more and more by the second. I finally realized that I could not put my body through more stress until I get

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