Re: 100-word short story competition
Ladies & Gentlemen, I present to you
The Vet
Once he’d walked with heroes, green titans striding through battlefields in foreign lands, young, proud and immortal. Like warrior kings of a bygone age, in their hands, the power over life and death by flicking a safety and the casual pressure on a trigger.
Their love and loyalty to one another unfettered, brothers bound by arms and the warriors creed, living, fighting and dying alongside each other. All this and so much more was their lot in this alien arid landscape until that fateful assault on the stronghold.
Now all he has is medal ribbons, a shattered body and memories.
pertinent, then, now & for the foreseeable future.
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I don't know half of you as well as I should like, and I like half of you, half as well as you deserve. (Bilbo Baggins)
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