The Outsider: A Narrative Fiction

Montag sat, watching the earth shake as his own city was destroyed. On his knees, he begged, begged for Faber to be alright. As the dust rolled onto his face, tears were running down his face and onto the ground.” Damn it! Damn it all!” He yelled as he grabbed the ground as if fighting with Hades himself. He grabbed his suitcase and opened it up. He tore out his old firefighter suit and attempted to put it on. But with his own sweat and tears blinding him, he knew he couldn’t do it. “Why can’t everything just go back to normal? I want to get back in the cave, as far away from the day as possible! I want the chains back on!” As he said this, he tore his suit in half. “I can’t change the past but I can change the future.” He then made a fire, with all its yelling, …show more content…
“Calm down professor, simply meet with the man and exchange plans.” He thought to himself, “Nothing to be nervous about, right? It’s not like he could be a spy, right? I have done nothing that would get me into trouble. Besides hiding books. Or harboring a criminal. Actually no, I can’t get in trouble for that, he’s already dead. Man, if only I could see his face again. It would be the face of courage.” Suddenly, he looked on the screen of the train in front of the passengers. He saw the bombs. They fell fast, very fast. Then he saw Mildred. But to him, it was just another face left in the dust. Then all came together as static flooded the screen. He looked out the window. Four atomic bombs had been dropped onto the city. Everyone saw their electronic devices go out. Everyone panicked, for without electronics, they felt like nothing. But Faber simply sat there, his eyes in disbelief. Darkness fell upon the world as one train cart fell upon each other. Everyone hid for cover. Faber however with book in hand, flipped to a random page for a quote but could only say a quote he had most recently