The Escape

A young holocaust captive escapes from a concentration camp. Say it in 6! Contest.

The Escape

          Wind whirls through the air, cutting quick and deep, chilling her to the bone. She stands alone on the snow covered road, hugging her only friend from her imprisonment, Mr. Snuggles, a coarse, dirt stained pink bear. She imagines herself as she was before: fresh and clean in the beautiful white and pink dress, white tights, and white ribbon in her crimped hair, so unlike the soiled, tattered one hanging from her now. Greasy and snarled, her hair falls limp, framing a blotched and bruised, tear-stained face and she wishes, not for the first time, for freedom from the dreary, terror filled camp that has become her daily life. She stares at the bridge, weary that she got this far, but scared of what lay ahead, on that frozen path out before she runs, a blur in the night, illuminated only by the light of the full moon. The snow crunches loudly underneath her feet as she flees across the old, broken down bridge, the only thing between her and freedom.