Life In The Rye: A Short Story

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“A house is made of walls and beams; a home is made of love and dreams.”
One day a year ago when I decide to get my family out of the war in Syria I did not know that I’m taking them to their end. I’m Abdul Allah a father of two beautiful boys that I lost forever Kalb and Aliane, I’m also a husband to the most beautiful woman Rihanna my wife. It was sunny hot day in the summer, after I ate my breakfast in the morning I take my oldest son Kalb with me to take a line on the bakery for some bread. To get some bread is not an easy thing to do because the line is so long it could take you two days until your turn and it is so expensive, that how life goes in Syria. Some time we cannot belief that we wake up with all of your family and they all fine,
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The boat was so small for 12 people. I take a breath and get close to them the owner told me to buy the life vest for my children; I told him that I don’t have money to buy it. “I gave you everything I have I don’t have more money for it” “well just get on the boat don’t wary nothing will happen, that is OK if don’t have money for it it’s not important.” He told me, after 6 hours in the water we were in middle of the White Sea in our way to happiness or that what we thought. The sun start to fell down leaving 12 people under God’s Marcy, and the dark start to appear. I was afraid that someone will do something to one of my family, so I gathered them in my lap. In the middle of the night my boys and other two children start to cray because it was cold and windy they were also hungry they didn’t eat since we start the journey, and my wife gets sick because of the waves of the sea. I start to calm them down by telling them a happy story. There were no lights I couldn’t see anything thee sea was really dark actually it was the darkest night in my life. Suddenly I heard voices raising from the other side of the boat, after that five men sand up, the boat flip upside down and my

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