A Christmas Truce
Just our luck to be in the front line on Christmas Eve. And a colder, wetter, filthier Christmas Eve I had never known, nor hope to again. "Ruddy perishing perishing ruddy...." Barrie muttered. He'd been trying to strike a match for the last...
A Major Calls
We'd have gone anywhere for Captain ffox. The whole bloody lot of us. Anywhere except...well, I won't repeat what Barrie said once. Very crude, that boy. I was worried at first, when I learned I was being transferred to ffox's platoon. He...
Teaser: The Painted and the Plain
In the cool of the hut, Pep lay on her bed of grass and stared up at the ceiling. Light sneaked through cracks in the walls to make dancing patterns. The grass was fresh and didn't smell comforting yet, and it felt weird after a year of big city beds...
(Quite A Long Way) After Housman
Loveliest of dogs, the husky now Is barking loudly bow wow wow, And jumps about where he is tied Waiting for a winter ride.
Cave God
As you made fire, so you made me. From the skull of a bear you killed not because she was attacking or had attacked before but because she might attack From the skin of a sleeping lion you tracked and speared and thanked From these things, you...