Short Story: Lily

Lily is an 18 year old girl living in the Berlin, Germany She was an average student in her school, and living in a Jew community, Lily was rather a quite person. The girls in her school hated her for being a Jew, and with Hitler who was continuously making horrendous, offensive and sickening comments toward the Jew community, it only added to that hate she was getting.

Sometimes when people asked her if she was a Jew, knowing the hate the people had for them, she would lie about it. Her father who owned a store just on the streets of Berlin, soon had to close down due to the anti-Jew boycotts. Her mother, who was teacher in the local elementary school down the street of her home, was fired for not only being Jew, but also lying about it.

On that cold night, no other word could be used to describe that feeling but fear. Lily rushed to living room window only to see a blaze of fire from a far distance. The small neighborhood was under attack as groups of men began searching house by house pulling people out and tossing them in pickups.

“Hide!” Lily shouted to her family, as they began searching for places to hide in that small house. Her father’s immediately and without hesitation hide under the small and cramp spaces under the bed along wither mother. While Lily’s brother already disappeared in the shadows of the shelves. Lily stood their frozen, her heart raced like the motor of the fastest car in the Indianapolis 500. She didn’t know where to hide in with parents or brother, or just give herself up.

Suddenly, an idea clicked in her brain, as she ran toward the kitchen. She carefully cleaned out the cupboards, placing the items in other cabinets. She carefully climbed the island and pulled herself in the cupboard. Being extremely thin due to lack of proper meals for the last two weeks, she fit in the small space of the cupboard with

She wanted to jump out and save her mother, but what could she do; she needed help herself from the fleas that were eating her flesh away.

She peeked through the crack of the cupboard, only to see the horrific sight of her parents and brother being dragged out of the house in handcuffs and chains. Suddenly, when a flea bites Lily between her toes, she flinched. Soldiers looked back immediately and one soldier signaled the other to check the kitchen. He stepped closer to the cupboard, reached out his arm and pulled the door. Lily froze, her heart skipped a beat and her palms were pale as unripe white grapes.

“Nothing! Let’s move out!” the soldier shouted as he pushed the cabinet back in an rushed out of the door and pulled Lily’s father into a truck load of people. Lily laid back against the cupboard and took a deep breath as she tried to convince herself that she was not going to die today. But as the hours flew by and the cries of Jews filled the air. Lily took in a deep breathe, as she tried to resist the hungry, but Lily soon couldn’t feel a think, as she was being eaten alive in front of her eyes. Maybe today was going to be Lily’s last day. Maybe she wouldn’t be able to live the life she dreamed of, but was at peace when everything around her came to an