my writers workshop

There I stood on top of that cliff, the blistering heat. Sweat rolling down my neck as I went through my thoughts the last month had been odd. It all started that night, the night he came into my room and said that I could not live in my house. He had a gun he said leave or ill shoot you dead. I ran outside to see that events muck like the one at my house had happened to all the nice houses. My friend who had just finished moving into his house came running out because a man like the one who came into my house forced him to leave. His mom and dad refused to leave so first he had beaten them but them yet they tried to fight back so he killed them. They both lay on the floor in a pool of scarlet red blood. I told him to follow me the best thing to do was to make some distance from the bandits as we later decided to call them. Our town was not large and it is smack out in the middle of now where. So we just ran until we both decided that we needed to stop. When we looked back I saw the town that we had just spent so long running from burst into flame though we hated there leaving it seemed like an ok. But now the idea yet now that it is gone I couldn’t wait another 3 years to leave it now I just wish it was back I missed them the fact that right then every one I knew was burning to death. The wind blew south so we couldn’t go back to the city till the fire died off. We where tired so we went to sleep on the dirt. It was hard to fall asleep not just because we where alone in the middle of a desert on a hard dirt But because we have no home anymore we where nomads. When we woke up the city had been entirely burned out and we went to see the remains of our once called home. We searched the ruins of the town only to find 2 shirts a jacket 2 pairs of pants 2 days worth of food 2 bags one that could hold our clothing and one that could hold the food. We knew to only two towns one to the east and one to the north we decide to go east because the trail of the bandits leads north. We waked only eating when we absolutely had to. The walk took 3 days and our food only lasted 2 days. When we finally reached the town we where exhausted. And to start our desperate search we went to the sheriff and told our story. The sheriff said he could spare no people to eradicate the bandits but offered to try to get us a place at the local hotel. We where allowed to stay for 2 days but after that we where on our own. We stayed there for two days. And in that time we decided to tell our story and a see what cash we could get for it. We made about $50 in people who felt sorry for us. We decided to go after the bandits ourselves. We scraped up our money and went to the gun store. We bought a revolver and 16 shots. And some where else we bought 2 canteens then we left but as we left the owner of the stable came up to us and offered us a horse it was slow and old but it was better than nothing. We rode North West to find a burned out city. I look around for food I found a stream of frees water coming out of a broken pipe we filled our canteens with water. We fund little edible food but what we did find we placed into our leather bag. As we search “house” after “house” we did find 8 rifle rounds that where no good to us for we didn’t have one. We more horse tracks head east se we followed them. We went two days and found a little town surprising not burnt to the ground. An eerie since came as we searched each house finding many big blood pools and stains in each house. We did find a large amount of food. But when we search one house their was a woman inside she pointed a gun at us we backed up with our hands in the air. Then she said o wait sorry. My friend said we mean no harm. We told her our story and she told us hers. Three days ago the bandits had rode into the town and killed the entire adult and kidnapped all the little kids. They hid in a secret room in there barn. We asked if there had been a stable. And they told us there was one. We found more stuff and we went and got horseis and we rode them in to the bandit camp then my friend gets shot so we run up a cliff where the woman tries to fight kill 4 of them and then she got shot off the cliff it was really ugly I shot the rest and saved myself and the woman’s little boy.