Running From the Metal City

They were close, and I could feel their presence. The snapping of an occasional branch, the sharp intake of a breath, and their pounding footsteps trailing after mine. Running faster, I prayed that I would lose them in the darkness ahead of me. Stumbling around the dark woods, my foot caught under a raised tree root. My body rolled over and over down the hill, pointed rocks cut into my naked arms and dirt fell down my torn and muddy clothes.

Yelling followed behind me and a blinding bright light shone in my face.

“It’s her.” A menacing voice said. Then darkness consumed me.

Julie Haze has been running for seven years, and one day she gets caught. Shes been runing and hiding... from them... and the compound. Once a month the government collects every ten year old. You are taken to the metal city with the metal sky. They make sure that you don't return for ten years.... that is if you return at all.