Tag: eccentric

• LEFT BEHIND

  

  Left, left, left, right, left. Back straight, arms swinging at the shoulder, crisp, clean steps. He would drum it into these natives if it killed him. No good roads, that was the problem. Didn’t live in proper houses. Didn’t wear any clothes, half of them. The whole place needed civilising.  Her Majesty’s army would soon…

  Iain Kelly

  15/02/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, What Pegman Saw

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