Chapter 1

Disclaimer (I'm only doing this once!): I do not own The Giver, nor will I ever. They belong to the awesome Lois Lowry.

What happened after Jonas found civilization. What was the music he heard? DADADA.

I stepped through the branches and couldn't believe all I saw, heard, and smelled! There were

people walking around wearing exotic apparel I had never seen before.

I saw women walking down the street with their legs and arms exposed. In the Village, a woman would be shunned for such behavior.

But the one thing that stood out like no other was the enormous, ruddy disk floating in an odd blue sky. I recognized these things from the visions The Giver had given me.

Oh, the Village, The Giver, my duties, all abandoned. I realized that me and Gabriel were alone for now, at least until we found people, good people, like us. But I didn't have a choice, did I. I mean, they were going to kill Gabriel, I had to save him. No, not they, my father. My father who lied to me. All the elderly, deformed, and handicapped, who were supposed to be "released", to be happy, they told us. But they weren't released. No. They were killed! Injected with lethal poison like the damned!

But I had to find people to help me. I couldn't just wander around this strange new world by myself. Then I spotted an old man sitting on a bench a dozen yards away from me. I cautiously walked toward the man, not knowing what to expect. With evident hesitance, I spoke.

"Excuse me, sir. Where are we?"

The old man laughed. "Why, son, we're in Memphis, Tennessee."

Ahh. What do you think. Should I continue? R&R.