A Collection of Badly Written Short Stories

The End of a Nation

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I don't know if this is more of a poem or a short story, what do you guys think?

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"United we will rise..."

Our flag laid torn, pieces drifting away with the cries of a torn nation brought to its knees. The flag that used to represent a nation full of hope, opportunity, and liberty... torn apart by its own hand

What this country built its principles upon is what brought its downfall.

Freedom and equality.

All those people who marched, all those people who gave their lives for the cause, did so in vain. Those riots gave them a reason to villainize us, gave them a reason to point their guns at us, which in turn caused us to retaliate. Those riots that turned into war, those wars that turned into mass genocides, under the guise of keeping the peace.

Now the flag we fought so hard for has fallen and we are left without purpose.

Yet still, we fight.

Fight, all around me I hear the fireworks of heavy artillery, guns popping, and screams of the unfortunate ones that were hit.

Fight, I feel the rumble of tanks shake the ground and the sky tremble as the jets cut through the air.

Fight, I jump and land face-first into a trench as the bombs hit the ground. I feel the warmth of my blood flowing down my face and I lay still, awaiting my imminent demise.

Until there is nothing left but the deafening silence...

I slowly began to rise from my hiding place, hoping there was no one left. I was wrong, one lone soldier stood in front of me about thirty feet away.

We stood still, not sure what we should do. Not one of us wanted to cross the blood-stained and body-riddled battlefield, not one of us wanted to kill the other. Everything that our friends, family, loved one... Everything we had fought for came down to this moment.

And yet we stood there for what felt like an eternity and then finally we turned our guns on ourselves, for there was nothing left to fight for. Our country was in ruins, our world had come to end and there was nothing left to fight for...

"...Divided we shall fall"