Gladys Bauer

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“AFTER THE STORM” by Gladys Bauer

Submitted to Contest #164

1982For the survivors of killing fields, the 1970s hit: Tie A Ribbon Around The Old Oak Tree struck a romantic, welcoming cord. Not so for Africa’s returning guerrillas. The warmth of the lyrics never sipped into their weary frames.In 1980, a virtually unknown racist conflict, the Rhodesian Bush War, ended with the country renamed Zimbabwe under President Robert Mugabe. We were free! Jubilant. Rid of the minority government of Prime Minister Ian Smith’s apartheid policies. The future lay before us like an asphalted highway devoid of curves a...

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