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Jun 30
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Mohamed

I'll Be Back (The Story of a True Hero)

Editor's Note: The author of this piece recently discovered Young Writers Project, and is posting from his home in Egypt. Young Writers Project believes in the value of learning from people with a variety of experience, and we are so glad that our community is spreading beyond the United States, so that we can appreciate other viewpoints. Welcome to the community Mohamed!


I'll be back is actually a story of a moral ,And it's not related to Arnold schwarzenegger at all :D,Now,Let's get down to the story .. 

One day,Just like usual,In a very normal house,Coffee was ready,The shower was ready,And everything was set as an ordinary journalist called "Harvey",Was preparing to go to his work,And he did his best to make that day a good one,He will probably manage to it,He took a quick shower,Drank his favorite coffee,And started to read the newspaper to see how it's going and his new article,But there was a really major surprise,He was working there for years then,But for the first time,He didn't see the article he wrote,He was just shocked,He didn't know what he had done so that they decided to remove his article,He just ran downstairs,Jumped into his cheap price car,And set off immediately,He wasn't really focused on the road,He was just thinking about it because as he said before "This could be the best article I've ever written" And he never thought it would be removed by the newspaper,And while he was thinking .. 

"WATCH OUT" ,But probably this phrase was said a bit too late,As the accident had happened already,Harvey crushed his car into a lorry... Time was passing too slow for him,A second in our world,Counted a year at that very small period of time,When he just wondered why this was happening to him,And how his one of the best days just turned around,Anyway,Harvey just passed out,People are now everywhere around him,And soon the ambulance arrived,He had nobody to visit,As he lost his family in 9-11,Nobody came to the hospital to help him ,Or even to tell him our usual useless word "Sorry" 

-"Who are your closest relatives,Master Harvey?" Asked the nurse

--"Nobody" 

-"Even your family,What about your wife ? "

That moment right there just passed as a century,As he remembered his wife who was trying to call him,And he couldn't answer as he was busy writing the unpublished article,He just couldn't hold his tears,And didn't answer the woman,And he quietly told her .. 

--"I know that there is one of my friends from the newspaper where I work is coming for a visit,Please let him in as soon as possible" 

the next day, his friend Michale from the newspaper entered,He welcomed him and told him to sit by ... And told him he wants to ask him something .. 

-"What happened to my article,Michale?" Asked Harvey

--"I'm sorry Harvey,I know it was rough to you lately and I couldn't tell you this last night,But you were fired because your article was against a governmental side,You've gone too far" 

-"What ??? ,It's fully correct and completely documented,I have evidences on my side" 

--"I know,But the problem is my dear friend,They have money on their side" Said his friend,With shame

-"Get out of here,I don't wanna see you again,Not even your newspaper,I'll open my own newspaper,And It'll be more successful than yours,Please show him the way" He said telling the nurse to take him out 

--"No,Thanks,I know the way already,I know it's pretty tough on you,But you'll understand" 

And as he went out,Harvey decided to really open his newspaper,He called it,"The Truth",It's a newspaper where it all could be said,Where there is no fear of any governmental side,He showed his article in that newspaper,And he helped put many important people in jail,He is now as he said before,Better than the old newspaper,And many young tough writers came there to join,Even me "The writer" would like to go there one day, You see,Sometimes life could take you down,And just leaves you no other choice but to kill yourself,But the true hero isn't the one who has body powers,But the one who is powerful enough to create his own options,Possible heroes could go down,But true ones who get back up again,And as I wish to be the hero of my story,Just wanted to tell you that ,I'll always be back,And you should do the same,Have a good day 

                                                                           The End 

                                                                 #summerofstories16

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Hannah Campbell
Greetinhgs to Young Writers Project, Mohamed! We're all super excited to have you here, and I know I am excited to read more of your pieces. I really love how you started off this anecdotal with a rather dull and normal routine, but then it immediately shifted towards another pressing issue in our world: the media and politician's cover-up of true and hardcore journalism. And unfortunately, a lot of times, their endings aren't as happy as Harvey's. But I do commend you for choosing to highlight this in your story!

Also, if you don't mind me giving you a teeny bit of grammatical advice: I see you have the concept of sentence structure down, however instead of using this character " , " the comma, we use a period which is this character " . " A comma is generally used for a pause in a sentence.

Overall though, I think your story is really important and I'm looking forward to whatever else you will be posting!
07/04/2016 - 2:32pm
Madison C
Welcome to Young Writers Project Mohamed! I am a younger writer and one who has only been on this site since October and I love it, I think you will too!
Anyways, I love the message shared throughout this piece and then your explanation and advice, which rounds this whole piece together nicely.I reallly liked how at the beginning you were able to tell so much about this journalist and his past life, this gave me a good understanding of what this piece was about. Great job!
07/02/2016 - 2:04pm
jacketbundock
Something I really appreciate is how you continue to bring your stories back to a larger concept/philosophy. I like how the seconds continue to feel longer and longer over the course of the story, especially in the line "that moment right there just passed as a century." There's multiple tiers to this... There's the narrator's own issues with his wife, there's the governmental issue with free press, and then back to an encompassing yet personal struggles.

"I'll always be back, and you should do the same." Thanks for calling on us to all become the heroes of our own stories.
07/01/2016 - 10:11am
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