Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 3 - 2017 | Page 168

The New Tales of Shanghai
Harrow Beijing, Liu, Rita - 14
A
fter the war the smoke of gunpowder split everywhere, The stench of the dead body are all over
the trenches. I lie underneath the trenches repeating the same reaction over and over again ,lie
down, rollover and hide under the crater
I muffled hear "the Japanese come again ！ ready to fight ！ ”when I take my gun out just ready to hunted my 11th
stick Japanese worm however the big stupid sticky worm thrown a grenade at me right on my face ！ After the
exploding the angel from above drag me.
"Is just a nightmare, don't worry honey you will be fine, I promise you will be ok, me and your dad decided you
are going to a Hong Kong university and be a normal person ! "I'm tom, a boy who survive in the great war. That’s
how lucky I ‘m. Now I ‘m going to talk about what happened during that period, Right now 1877/01/01 I’m
setting in the jail and writing this note, after an hour I’ll say goodbye to the world.
夜上海，夜上海“every single night when I was bored I will open my window and looking at the night club that
beside my house listen to the music and enjoy the ‘tintang” bus go cross the street, wait till the next day to come
faster, however after the annoying winter passed everything completely changed, my life, my family and my
schoolmate.
The Japanese soldiers are bossy, tyrant and scary. When I went to school they take away the teachers, when I back
home they always potshotting, I can’t even fall in sleep.
After a mouth later my mom and I decide to study in Hong Kong, the environment was much more calmer than
shanghai. The first year of university was fantastic my crush always seat beside me, talk to me and no guns, no bloody
bossy killer who always take the teachers away. That’s when I realized life wasn’t that hard. In the second year of
college I bravely tell my crush and be together with her. She’s name is Chengcheng ,who always wear a white
cheongsam and a pair of glasses. Everyday we walk around the campus eat sandwiches on the grass talk about life
and dreams. She teach me mathematics I help her with English language. Sometimes Chengcheng is my personal
cheerleader when I playing basketball. Sometimes I watch Chengheng dance on the stage with white dress like in
the wedding. We promise to accompany each other for the entire life, She will be my beautiful wife and I will be
she’s handsome husband.
“you should go back and look what happen.” Until the worst sentence coming out my life wasn’t that perfect any
more.
I accompany chengcheng back to shanghai to join the funeral……….never back to Hong kong again and not
even finish the last year of college. When we back to shanghai everything changed, like a person who get lost in a
rain forest and howling, swallow it pride bagging the monsters to her go ?and live in the rain forest forever ?In this
world there’s always a bigger rule over top of every single law that is the strongest live because they deserved the
others have no right to say anything about it. From that thought I decide to use anything that I can do to help my
country.
A thousand of people walk across the street yes, you are right I ‘m one of the elite in the line, and leading the
student to resist the president and’ the Japanese . remember the night I seat at the window and looking and listening
to the background sound track. That pulls me and give me determinations to fight for my country my home town
shanghai!