Dark and disturbing - your freewrite is packed with action, people, tension, conflict, and an endearing glimpse of a mother's love, carrying her child "piggyback" when he's "too old" for that, just to keep him safe.

This is a launching point for a novella or novel: the military comes, not as a savior, but full of verbal abuse, breaking our ego and power to fight with words, telling us if anything dares happened to us, no one, I repeat no one cares and will cares. We now know we are alone. Wow! And as if that wasn't enough, the rival gang came, and it was abuse at its peak, since our armour is down, oh my, they molested us enough, so much as to wake up with news of young ladies dangling by the rope. Aftermath of rape. Just.... oh, wow.... I really hope you never experienced any of this firsthand. If you feel like expanding on this story, you might try submitting it to the "spreadsheets" (the queue) at @isleofwrite.