He made it back to the tram terminus just in time for turnaround. Grabbed a seat at the window and dozed with his head against the glass as the tram rattled back into town. Ragged, flash-lit dreams, fragments from the war, stalking his shallow sleep. Machine gun fire, screams and pleading eyes. A soft, Welsh accented voice. And somewhere in there, little Ellie Furlough, falling terror-stricken into a hole filled with mud and rusted barbed wire and the rotted corpses of men still somehow ...
Published on June 02, 2025 05:48