Thanks for the reply! :D

Hehe, yeah. Sometimes it's hard to make sense of things before you really get the idea of what you want to say.

And sometimes its best to either start anew when you get that idea or, as you said, rewrite several times before it feels right.

I believe I gave up somewhere along the way, partly because I had to go to bed and partly because I got overly frustrated by the lack of confidence in my writing.

Thanks. I liked the opening dialog also. But it somehow didn't connect with the rest of the story in my opinion. I should've written something more about "what the news said" or "why they are actually afraid"... you know, somehow have it link to the story itself. I feel like it fell short there.

Thanks for the input, though! Constructive criticism is always awesome, so feel free to criticize also ^.^