A Work of Fiction

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“Medic! Medic!”

An attack by swarms of armed drones in the wee hours of a gloomy, wet morning had devastated the dispersed Army platoon. As he sprinted or crawled to scattered fighting positions, almost every soldier Lieutenant Cory Dixon encountered had been hit during the storm of air-burst shrapnel.

He located his unit’s sole medic, frantically twisting a tourniquet, trying to stem the red spurting from a machine gunner’s leg. Dixon dropped to a kn...