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Cyclops
…the cyclops makes monsters of us all” Roy Braithwaite (taken from a taped recording made by his Niece Geraldine Braithwaite 1987)
I ‘ad finished my second to last stub an’ was crumbling the fag into the dry grass an dirt. I watched the blue smoke curl up from the green grass as I stubbed the tab out. Churning the earth an with it feeling a sharp pain rise up me arm as the orange embers of the fag burnt me thumb
'-The usual.'
'-Fuck off!' Scarface retorts ‘You fuckin’ know how hard it is to peddle that? If I am caught-
'-You’re not, not back at the front for a, another couple of days, an, from what I hear- “Jack’s grin was what I remember then.
Jack grinned and flashed a small bottle of something’ from the bag ‘ee ‘ad.
‘Four cartons.’
I held that letter tightly in my hand, till morning’ came.
***
If the Cyclops had taken a human form, amongst us, it would have taken the shape of Sargent Brannagan.
' Yes, you…laddie.’
What’s that letter you gave me for.’ I say.
‘I’ll be there for you.’
With that I smiled.
There isn’t much to Frommel, its really just a line of trees, towards an old farmstead. Oaks and birches slide off towards the west.
But that, that, that didn’t scare me. I’d seen bodies.
I screamed my silence through my mask; as I fought through the barbs of wire.
So, they brought me home. That was all of twenty years ago today. I hear they are calling it the "the war to end all wars” now perhaps it will be, though something tells me, it’s the tip of the iceberg. For my solace, I have the letter that Jack gave me. Inside the contents read thus:-
Andrew David Hunt (1967 - present) was born in the U.K county of West Sussex. From a very early age, he had a love of reading and writing fantasy and fiction.
Despite having been diagnosed with both dyslexia and dyspraxia late in life, he went on to attain a Ba-honours in English language and literature. He has written and self published a collection of short stories entitled "Dark Whispers" a screenplay of R.L. Stevenson's "the Beach of Falesá" as well as two books of poetry. "sequential creation" and "the little book of sonnets". He currently resides in the UK county of Devon.
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