The gears were checked carefully.
Adem (he/him) looked at his reflexed face in a mirror, while an anchorman was saying something about a massive explosion just happened near Clock Square, the main plaza of the city.
"It is thought that the criminal is a local man".
The anchorman stopped to speak, while a few ads were popping out on the TV screen - a new implant for scuba-diving, a child doing child stuff, an ad where a woman says "Adem help me, please!" dismally.
The stunned man turned his face to the TV screen, a short-haired woman lying in her blood was trying to stop bleeding out on his left arm almost cut in half. Next, a few numbers appeared on the TV screen 0°45′1x03″ N, 105°55′4e13″ E.
"The Police was claimed to have been involved in the explosion".
Finally, Adem recognized Reccoa, his girlfriend, in the woman's voice and appaearance. He ran out of his apartment as fast as he could towards the coordinates shown on the TV screen.
The apartment should have been completely quiet, but the anchorman kept saying a bunch of updates about the explosion. After a few minutes, the anchorman stopped speaking and a new ad showed off the screen - a man and a short-haired woman cuddled up while the EMS (Emergency Medical Service) was rescuing them.
The anchorman appeared once more on the TV screen. "Breaking NEWS: in September the woman called Reccoa bought an ad from the news company to surprise her fiancè with a proposal. Many of these ads are bought by local small business owners of the city to advertise their product. Today the advertising turned out as a request for help..."
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(Sorry in advance for any grammar or punctuation mistakes. As an non-English native speaker, I'm getting on English speak writing short stories on Wattapad. Thank you.
I tried out Passive forms in this short story.)
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It is thought that an ad can't change a life
Cerita PendekA short story based on an anchorman talking about lastest news which topic is something related to recent cyberpunk phsycosys and explosion in a populated futuristic city where two people might meet each other due to an ad...
