Gary, Condemned By The State ✏️5 Minute Freewrite Day 257✏️ -- State
“That’s the decision of the state,” the judge said in response to Gary’s plea.
“How could this be,” wondered Gary as he was taken away in handcuffs. After years of writing for the Independent Opinion News (ION), Gary had been convicted of treason against the United States government.
His crime seemed innocent enough to his coworkers at the ION, but after months of criticism from government officials, the pressure was on to set an example. Gary’s views were no longer tolerated, nor were any thoughts that conflicted with the opinion of the President of the United States. The precedent was set.
The work that led to the conviction included a four-part series on the damaging impact that a dictatorship can have on the wellbeing on a nation. Gary’s stories and images, doubling as his own photographer, shared with the world what this generation was enduring under the rule of President Townson.
Gary’s now had plans of escaping jail, but not by breaking out in a traditional jailbreak fashion, but with his writing – using the very tool to escape that led to him being there in the first place.
This is my entry for @mariannewest's 5 Minute Freewrite Day 257. The prompt for this freewrite was "state." This writing is unedited and was typed in 5 minutes, so please follow my blog for more polished examples of my writing, and thank you for stopping by!
Previous Freewriting Challenge Entries
- Day 251 -- Players
- Day 250 -- Core Values
- Day 249 -- Bath
- Day 248 -- Suffers in Silence
- Day 246 -- Discord
- Day 244 -- Wood
- Day 242 -- Herbs
- Day 239 -- Skinny
- Day 237 -- Dew
- Day 236 -- Describe The Room You Are In
- Day 235 -- Quadrillion
- Day 232 -- Depression
- Day 231 -- Cherry
- Day 230 -- Wet
- Day 229 -- Scratch
- Day 227 -- Bones
- Weekend Freewrite (6/2) -- Gullible
- Day 225 -- One Year
- Day 224 -- Discount Ramblings
- Day 223 -- Brow Worries
- Day 222 -- Homeless
- Day 221 -- Detective
- Day 218 -- Travel
- Day 217 -- Appetite
- Weekend Prompt -- A Kiss
You did this in 5 minutes? That's amazing in so many ways. You've left me wondering if he'd figure out a way to escape prison by writing letters and the sorts or if it's his mental getaway.
Hmm, I’m not too sure Gary’s escape plan is gonna work
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