Tag: war
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TERRORIST
Blackness enveloped the city. The power curfew began at midnight. The grid was shutdown. Homes were silent. Streetlights dark. A flicker of rare candlelight betrayed the restaurant or club that refused to close. An occasional set of car headlights crept passed, driven by those lucky enough to still have access to the electricity needed to…
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REBEL HELD
The jeep jolted over rough terrain. Phillips struggled to breathe under the thick gauze. His wrists ached where they were strapped together. *** ‘You’ll travel to Idlib. They’ll make contact, then take you to their base somewhere in the An-Nusayrirah mountains.’ ‘Seems awfully thin.’ Phillips said. ‘Our government thinks it’s a chance worth taking if…
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THE COLLABORATOR
How ironic that he should use this car in order to blend in to the street life of Haifa. When Elias had been a boy the sight of a Volkswagen would have turned heads. Not anymore. The man crossed the street in front of the car. Elias glanced at the photograph to be sure. It…
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THE PLOUGHMAN AND THE NAZI
The droning grew louder. McLean, leaning on his pitchfork, scanned the sky looking for the source. An RAF flyer, he thought. Not unusual in the evening, although this aeroplane sounded much lower than normal. The noise exploded over the ridge, knocking McLean off his feet. As he fell backwards he saw the low-flying ‘plane, with…
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THE NEW KING
He looked down upon his ragtag army of waifs and strays, born and reared in the streets, just like him. Now they had organisation and purpose. No longer fighting among themselves, no longer squabbling over meagre scraps. He had brought them together, united against their common enemy. From the rooftop he looked at the skyline…
Iain Kelly 