Surviving As Novels & Stories

"We can't let them catch us, and we can't let them stop us. We're doing the right thing, and we're going to keep doing it, no matter what anyone says." The survivors in the warehouse were watching the news too, fear creeping across their faces as they realized their saviors were being hunted by the authorities. "Don't worry." My voice stayed calm, reassuring, as I turned to face them. "We're going to protect you, and we're going to keep fighting. The world may not understand what we're doing, but we know we're doing the right thing. We're going to survive this, and we're going to help as many people as we can along the way."

I asked. “When they decide it does,” he continued. “For now, focus on surviving this stage.” That word again. Surviving. Not living. Not adjusting. Just surviving. I let that settle in my mind. Then I nodded. “Okay, I will.” He studied me for a moment, then gave a slight nod. “Good.”

HELENA Pain surged through my body as I tried to sit up and get myself off the ground. The pain was sharp and sudden. Chasing away the last traces of weakness I had. Along with it, the hope of survival. In my condition, it didn’t matter what I did. I couldn’t fight my way through what was coming. I gritted my teeth and tried pushing myself off the ground again.

And I know everything is going to be okay. We're going to survive this. We're going to survive everything. Because we have each other. And that's all we need.

Alex screamed from a stretcher, his face covered in dust and blood. Then he spotted Maddie and me standing there, both safe and on our feet. He went still. A second later, he broke down. "Kayla... I'm sorry. I should've listened to you. That corner wasn't safe. The ceiling came down on us. Rainee lied. She got us all hurt!" I looked at him coldly. They'd made their choice. They'd gambled with their own lives. "Over here! More survivors!" A rescuer's shout rang out from deep in the rubble.

Things happen, you survive but do you survive every hardship on your own? We have a certain someone with us this whole time: if not physically then mentally but there is a shadow or an actual person who stands by you and helps you through. It can be a word of someone or a warm hand that keeps you going. Whatever is it, you have that one shoulder. Surviving alone isn't possible. Human a social animal needs someone always, it's our need to stay attached to people, if not to a huge group, then to a single someone but we need to do that.

"Broken and Abused Was left to suffer; Cried and Begged to Be Loved and Cared for" Ashma Rauniyar ******************************* I was broken; I was abused; I was left to suffer on my own; I kept on crying and begging to be loved; to be cared but no one heard my plea of songs. I was left alone to fight; alone to survive; alone to fight with my worst nightmares; left alone to fight the depression. I was left alone by my own family to die.

Sat down in the living room. “ Dr. Brown, I know you are not a Cardio doctor, but I need you to know, I don’t have long. 9 years ago I was given approximately several years left to live. So I worked hard, and tirelessly to solve the issues of those who wanted each of the families here dead. I made it so that if you ever decided to leave this community that you could do so safely and not feel like you had to stay because you didn’t feel safe. However, it is now coming to an end, as far as I am concerned. As promised you, and all the remaining families are welcome to stay here as long as you wish and live out the rest of your days.

Alive. We survived. Against impossible odds. Against Asher's torture. Against everything. We survived. And now we get to figure out what comes next. Together.

“I know it was you who saved me.” His blood froze and he nodded slowly. “I see.” “I just don’t know how you are still alive…” With his heart pounding in his ears, he rasped, “I can understand that?” He’d thought she hadn’t seen him, but was he wrong? “Some of us did manage to survive the war. We went under deep hiding, and have been surviving under the nose of humans since then." She glanced around to make sure they were alone. "Are there others who survived too? Other supernatural species?"