The Crucible Short Story

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Private James Miller 3 Months after Virus went Public My squad and I were sitting around playing cards when we heard the news. It was only about 10:00 AM when our Sergeant came in and told us what was happening in the world. Most of the men in the camp that I was in left to go and spend time with their families but the few of us that stayed were there to hang on until the end. We were survivors and we were ready. I didn’t have any family to go home to. I had nobody to protect besides my squad mates. This is where I wanted to be when the world went to hell and this is where I was going to stay. I was from Louisiana but I was stationed in southern Jersey. Most of my buds there are from the north and made fun of me for my accent. I used…show more content…
I had no idea what “this thing” was or what it turned people into but I knew that it was going to be rough out there. My buddies that were left did the same thing. I can tell you that some of them where scared while packing. You could just see the frightened look on their face. They thought this was the end. I didn’t though. I knew that if we stuck together, we could pull through this. The first time I saw one of the infected was when my squad and I were sent into the heart of New York City. We were sent to go and get any possibly supplies useful for the future. My buddy, Private Andrew Martinez, and I were looking out for medical supplies (gauze, cough syrup, etc.). I first saw them while we were driving into the city. They chased after our car while we drove. Back then I didn’t know much about them. They just seemed like mindless people wandering the streets. I later learned that that was exactly what they were. Once somebody was bitten, they got burned out by a fever. Those fevers could range from 103°-112°F. Everybody that got bitten either died from the bite or from the fever. After you die, you become one of them. Your brain only reboots with the part that makes you function. The part that makes you, “you” doesn’t come back leaving you as a sack of meat without any knowledge of what you’re doing. All that they want is to eat you. You are their only food supply and that…show more content…
Hundreds, maybe thousands walking around having no sense of what they’re doing. They flooded to us. It was a spectacularly horrifying sight to see. Tons of bodies with flesh and skin falling off of their faces sprinting at us. Me and my squad sprinted into the closest building we could find which happened to be an old office space. The building had two sets of strong metal doors that held the things back. This gave us time. We ran through the building, out the back door, and into an alleyway. The alley had maybe 6 living corpses in it which we cleared out quite easily. I can tell you that we weren’t expecting that many in the streets. We thought that the people in the city would be smarter and leave but apparently they weren’t. Eventually, we made a plan and decided it would be best to hang in the shadows and stay off the streets. Once we got away from the center of the city, we found a grocery store. It looked like it had been raided for supplies early on and there was hardly anything left. Andrew and I knew that we needed to find food so we looked for anything we could find. That ended up with us leaving that grocery store empty handed. Everyone else in my squad had gotten what they came for but Andrew and I did

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