Narrative Essay: The Kite Runner

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They're looking for me. I run around the maze. I’m listening for their footsteps. I run out the back and I see an train. I hop on as guards trail behind me. I run through the corridors. The men chase behind me. “Get to the front!” A man screams. It’s him. It’s the sergeant. I open a escape hatch and crawl under the train. Footstep pound against the floor as the sergeant shoots all of the men thinking they let me go. I crawl from under the train and run into the forest. I trip over a stump when I hear men heading into the woods. I take out the time machine and put my hands up as the army finds me. “Don’t shoot!” I scream as the machine zaps me away into an rift. It starts to pull me in. I look at the time machine to see an bullet has been

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