It was 1945, Hiroshima when it happened. I was just 15 years old with dreams and aspirations for the future until the event happened. After the bomb dropped we were all scared for our lives. This is until I saw the end.

My family was once a happy one. We would laugh, smile and cry together. That illusion was soon shattered when we heard about the US dropping the atomic bomb on us. Panic soon ensued for everyone around us including my family. Instead of staying together and trying to get through it my parents left me. I wondered why they did this but with the current situation at hand I had no choice but to put it in the back of my mind and think about it later.

My family and I used to walk to the park together. We used to eat together and laugh about that day’s problems. We used to just go out on random occasions to hang out with each other. Now that the bombs are coming, all that is gone. The park where we used to hang out with each other will be gone. The restaurants that we used to eat at are now closed. Everything that we used to do is now just going to be a distant memory that I will cherish for the rest of my life.

Remembering what I was taught at school I knew I needed to seek shelter at all costs. I tried my best to protect myself from the bomb, but what’s going to stop an atomic bomb? I found the sturdiest looking house and took shelter there Something’s better than nothing. The bomb dropped after I entered the house. I lost consciousness as soon as the aftereffects came. Once I regained consciousness I remembered waking up in the remnants of a destroyed home perfectly fine. Everything around me was completely destroyed except for the spot where I was lying. After taking a look around my surroundings that’s when I saw the thing that protected me; something not from this world.Then. I noticed that it had not protected me in the way I was originally thinking.

I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. The thing right in front of me could only be described as something that should have never existed on Earth. I heard it screech and go towards the townspeople. I heard people screaming, then they stopped. I followed after it, keeping my distance and seeing what happened to those people. You couldn’t even call them people anymore because of how deformed they looked. The radiation changed them in ways that shouldn’t be possible. The way that the surroundings had changed, I couldn’t even recognize where I was in my own city.