Bark Bark: A Narrative Fiction

It all began with a simple phone call one night after dinner. “Bark bark,” Robert hollered up the stairs, “bark bark bark bark.” Which I could only assume meant “Number Seven, it’s for you. It’s Hugo, and she sounds pissed.” As I came down the stairs to pick up the phone, I was not motivated to go on another “adventure” after the last few times. I was tired and had looked forward to a nice quiet evening at home, not another stupid adventure with Hugo. Thirty minutes later, however, Hugo’s chrome plated tandem bike swung into our driveway, and Hugo was frantically ringing the doorbell as the bike fell over in the driveway. Grabbing my coat from the couch, I walked out my front door with all the enthusiasm of a man going before a firing squad. We got onto the bike and he told me we had another …show more content…
It was the leader of Russia. We were immediately thrown in purgatory where we only got 5 minutes outside just to stare at the Siberian sun. The one thing I don’t regret is being forced We were isolated for 5 weeks. I know it was 5 weeks because . Then one day I noticed we were let out for much longer, or I was just hallucinating again. I realized I wasn’t when an armored truck pulled up blaring Russian propaganda music. We were taking on a several hour trip to what they described as a “working establishment.” Except the thing was it was a gulag and I could see the prison we were previously in so they literally just drove in circles to confuse us since we couldn’t see out the truck. They send us into small rooms that couldn’t have been large enough to fit a smart car. Nonetheless I tried my best to sleep through the screams of the men grueling in the labor camps knowing that will soon be