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The long hike

Cohen Firth

Submitted to Contest #110

A truck pulls up alongside the line I look up from the dark brown mud I am marching on and see an injured hitch hiker being huddled into the open rear of the mud-stained truck. My boots slap the soft mud in rhythm with the others ahead and behind me the rain pours out of the sky like a shower, a cold, harsh shower. The rumble of guns fills the air dimming slowly every hundred metres or so. This what retreat feels like. Hundreds of rag-tag conscripts and a few hard veterans from the first few years of this godforsaken war. My father’s war was...

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