The earthquake

A boy has a hard time after an earthquake

Chapter 1: The warning

I was a quiet night in 1970. George was listening to the radio with his father as they ate their favorite popcorn, kettle corn. I was about seven o'clock in the evening. Suddenly his father heard on the radio that there was an earthquake being expected in about ten minutes. George  wasn’t listening, he was just waiting for the lamp posts to go on. His mother and sister were at the doctor, his sister was pretty sick. He could hear his father scrambling in the box of first aid. He had no idea what would happen in the next ten minutes. Then it happened…

Chapter 2: The earthquake

The floor started to shake. Now he understood why his father was scrambling in the first aid. Of course, he quickly did what they did at school for practice. He went under his father desk just as the ceiling fell. Then the radio stopped and the earthquake stopped. He went to the where his father lay. Dead. I felt like he had just swallowed a handful of nails. He did not know if his mother and sister were ok, and he started to cry. He could hear other children crying too. 

Chapter 3: The aftershock

He wanted to punch himself and thinking, WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY! That’s when the aftershock came and the door fell. I was pretty dark outside and inside. Then a miracle happened, he father started to breathe and he ran over to him and started to shake his father. His father was not dead! George and his father walked over to the doctor because his father’s knee hurt. George found his sister coming to him but mother was dead...

Author's Note

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