Im writing a short story to get some practice in writing, is this a good hook so far?
Breach and Clear
From the Library of Sandlewood, year 2023
A memoir of the people of Sandlewood Village about the partial collapse of American society, as condensed by Dr. Fhars.
"A hundred-year war had ruined most of what the world once was. Unfurtunately, no one in the village knows what it originally began fur. We were all taught in our early schooling that it was simply a war of survival, and the history books we have found offer no unbiased explanation.
What is known is that the war ended in 2005, with systematic nuclear detonations occurring in the command and control centers of every major European, American, and Asian power. By that time, most populations had already been drained. Every man, woman, and eventually child had been prepared to lay down their life fur their country. The detonations were the final nail in the coffin.
An engineer by the name of Henry R. Lemonson, who worked at a hydrostation in Illinois, told me: “Fuel stopped coming in soon after D.C. was blown. No work could be done. We stopped going. The rolling blackouts stopped — no one had power at that point. Without power, everyone did their own thing, fur better… or worse.”
His story is echoed across what was once the country. Fur ten years, the remnants of the population furmed factions in its carcass. Recently, however, in the past five years, we have made radio contact with several cities that have begun functioning once again.
