Stories tagged war

three more war micros

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So many names.

pvt Ray's People Have Always Been Soldiers

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For those who have borne the brunt of war.

Ray's People Have Always Been Soldiers

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Ray's boy sets up the Claymores. Then, with the rest of the patrol, he lies and waits.

A Session About Grandma

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It suddenly seemed so banal.

We Are Busy Sewing the Flags of Our Children

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We have brought our defeated flags out of hiding. I lay mine on the table under the naked bulb....

A Session About Dad

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“Can you let the love win?” she asked. A reasonable question.

Imagine

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Imagine you are a goddess in a field of war. You look into the haunted eyes of someone dying, a young man, a beautiful man, dark hair, dark eyes, red blood, vast pain. And his soul begins to sing to you his ache before his vision is eclipsed. “They were…

Hints of the Blitz

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I snap on the BBC's silly play. We sit, wait, listen.

Did you ever kill someone?

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Well, yeah but no one that wasn't pointing a gun at me, mostly. I shot at a lot of people but there were only three times when I can honestly say I know that I blew someone away.

Nested Story in Fallujah

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He's dead. He's dead, she cried. I still didn't move. I stayed there until dark. I thought it was my fault.

Iraq Insomnia

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I'm too exhausted to fight them in the middle of the night and I mean them because the dog starts to growl if I try to remove Evan back to his bed from there. They have formed an enemy pack.

Great Rift Valley

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she shivered in the ceasefire like a virginal nude brought to life.

Optimum Condition

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I have hate and it is black not midnight, crisp fresh clear. Unadulterated. It is dirty, poor, gritty solid rough like unripe stone fruit. A peach, mealy and dry. The killing, effete, endures. Silent, my repugnance, sick, eats…

Sleep With The Fishes

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Pull her from the water and check her pockets. Shouldn’t death tattoo a message on each palm it removes the pulse from.

Afghanistan, Not to Be Confused with Tennessee

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Soon he is daydreaming again...