Tag: camp
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CROSS OR CRESCENT
A cross or a crescent, why did it matter? The blood was always red, it ran the same no matter where they sent her. The victims needed the same things no matter what banner flew over their camps. Some chose to find offence in the cross, some in the crescent. All either symbolised was their…
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VISTA OF WAR
Their camp was just outside the old boundary wall of the city, in a wooded area on the crest of a hill that overlooked the valley below. Central City sprawled out before them as far as they could see. The secluded camp sat in a clearing between six oak trees. Branches from the trees stretched…
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THE WOLF’S LAIR
Kaufmann swept the final bundle of wood shavings into the wheelbarrow and stretched his aching back. ‘Hör nicht auf,’ the supervisor yelled at him. ‘Schnell, schnell.’ Exhausted, Kaufmann put the broom and spade into the barrow and took up the handles. He waddled as quickly as his skinny frame could manage, clearing the road just…
Iain Kelly 