Hold Formations Men

Words 02.23.15

Note: My teacher gave us another creative Scrivere assignment! This is what I’m submitting to her. The topic is a story that conveys two of the following themes: appearance versus reality, betrayal, manipulation/deception, jealousy, and hate. I chose pretty much all of them except jealousy. It’s also humanized.

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Thomas laid back on a cot with his arm crossed over his eyes. The sounds of arguing Danes in the neighboring cells and guards beating at their cell bars with their batons to try and quiet them filled the stale air.

He lay in silence, thinking to himself how stupid...

Things remained quiet for the rest of that evening. Skipper had returned to his usual position in his bunk, although he had più thought in his expression as opposed to the blank, indescribable one from before.

After a good night’s sleep, Kowalski awoke to a shuffling sound from below about an ora before the alarm. When he rubbed his eyes and looked over the side of his bunk, his mind snapped into full awareness at what he saw.

Skipper had managed to grab his wheelchair from successivo to his bunk and sit it parallel to it. After locking the wheel closest to him, he reached across the wheelchair...