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Submitted to Contest #200
George came out of the army with no medals and nothing intact but his convictions. He had been shot in the foot – too slow to scramble into a trench and a machine gun bullet pierced his instep – and kept in a bamboo cage for a month with only rice water slops to eat. Nothing had pierced or starved his beliefs, and some had been made stronger. When I knew him before the war he was a short, olive skinned, wiry man with dark eyes and thick slicked back black hair, suited to coal mines in the country of his forebears. He enlisted at the b...
Submitted to Contest #195
Fuck it! Bloody Rome wasn’t built in a day, but I could do with some freakin help around here, Dad yelled as he climbed off the tractor. For two days he’d been ploughing the western paddock. Three hundred hectares that we needed to tilth and get under seed before the rains, if they came. It’s not a tough job – air-conditioned cab, music, GPS steering the tractor. All of which makes it very boring after a few hours. Grey-black flood plain soil, flat to the narrow horizon, sauntering past endlessly as behind you the double eight discs gri...
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