Thursday, September 9, 2010

Assignment #1 If You Could Transport Yourself Anywhere

             It's September 11, 2001, 8:00 a.m. Just a typical day at work. The day has just began and everyone is still half asleep. Yet no one could have expected what was going to happen next. Just as i am sitting in my cubical getting some work done i hear a loud boom! The building starts to shake and we all start to panic. Running around wanting answers on what just happen. We look out the window to see nothing but smoke and the flying pieces of the collapsing building. "Everyone! Please exit the building as fast as you can!" i hear, not looking and trying to find out who said it. I just move as quickly as i can to find the stairs and make my way out of there. All i can hear now are my co-workers screaming and praying they will make it out safely. The lobby is packed with people and it seems like no one is moving. I suddenly feel someone grab my hand and pull me through the crowd towards the exit. My face getting squished by the numerous amounts of people blocking the door. As soon as i squeeze my way out, i let go of the strangers hand and run as fast as i can not looking back. My vision is blocked by the immence amount of black smoke and panicing pedestrians but i don't care. All i can think about is getting as far away from this buliding as i can. I hear another big explosion and look back to see the tower that I had spent more than half of my days in crashing to the ground. I stand on the other side of the street, tears running down my face, wondering who would do such a thing and then see peramedics carrying dead bodies and aiding the remaining people who are bloody and can barely breath. The sounds of sirens, shrieking, crying and yelling are pounding in my head. I cant gather up the courage to walk away from here and get home safely. All i can do is watch in sorrow as i see my fellow employee and my best friend being carried by two paramedics while shes covered in cuts, scrapes and blood.

1 comment:

  1. Good start, Gurlene. Needs proofreading. Focus on descriptive detail. Consider some similes and metaphors.

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