A Shattered Future

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Mona ducked into one of the abandoned, destroyed buildings to her right. The roar of the bandit’s truck behind her kept her charging forward as fast as she could, despite being out of breath. The crack of gunfire rang out through the air, and the stray shots kicked up pieces of destroyed hardwood floor next to her feet.

She darted through what used to be a living room, a smashed television and overturned couch strewed about. She leaped over the couch and dove through an already-broken window, landing on a wrapping deck outside.

Her pursuers caught sight of her, and they parked the vehicle. More bullets smashed through the frail wall next to her, narrowly dodging her form. Doors shut behind her, and she knew she had to move. The four of them on foot with assault rifles meant she’d be no match with her measly revolver, half of the rounds already spent.

Running to the back of the deck and leaping off it, she hooked her hands into the chain-link fence and scaled it, vaulting her body over the top in one fluid motion. A rifle shot snapped the pole atop the fence a second after she’d been there.

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