Below is my offering for this week’s ‘Friday Fictioneers’ Challenge from Rochelle. You can check out the challenge and learn how to take part at this link: http://rochellewisofffields.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/18-january-2013/

SURVIVORS?

She was about to polish the menorah when the phone rang.

“They’re coming!  They’re two blocks east of you!  Run!  Hide!”

Cold, paralyzing terror washed through her.  She screamed for Susan.

She came, still holding her crayons.  “What, Mama?”

“We have to leave, Honey.  Right now!”  Coats, scarves, her pittance of money . . . .

“But, Mama –“

“Right now!  Don’t argue!”  Trembling violently, she dragged Susan out the door.

She’d tried to believe it wouldn’t come to them.  “Oh, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, please, please deliver us . . . .”