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Prompt photograph provided by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields.

Try as I might, I could not move.

I saw the knife, blood on my clothes. A pair of pale blue eyes had stared accusingly at me. I tried telling myself it was him or me. I wanted to turn the clock back. Talk to him.
Grabbing his jacket I had torn it. The photograph of him and his young family tormented me. It had been next to his heart, as my knife pierced it. Defending freedom should not come at such a cost… Then I recalled the bark of a gun. I fell beside him..

I wrote this around ten days back, a wiser man than I said “write what you feel”…

This Post Has 24 Comments
  1. I think many of us find it hard to accept we are animals when push comes to shove.

    See if I have commented more than once, I’m having tech issues.

  2. Much is lost in a war. Sad that two innocent lives were lost in this story.
    Both will meet in the other world and discuss about the futility of war.

    Well expressed. Poor man had his family phone with him…

  3. Excellent story, Michael, really well written. Until we stop honouring killers and potential killers (i.e. soldiers), we will never have peace.

    1. Is certainly is… Sadly I believe that warfare has destroyed far far to many gifted people, who if they had lived would have brought great things to the wider realms of humanity

  4. (I’m not sure my comment posted so here we go again. Sorry if I did it twice.) You captured well the brutality of war. I also think of the tragedies that are occurring in the Ukraine. I can’t imagine the horror of it for the Ukrainians. Thank for writing this and causing us to think.

    1. Hi Brenda, your comments are get through, war is horrific… I believe that warfare has destroyed many gifted people, who if they had lived would have brought great things to the wider realms of humanity

    1. Thank you Margaret, I do wonder why the United Nations did not send in a multinational peace keeping force, before the Russian invasion. I believe that warfare has destroyed many gifted people, who if they had lived would have brought great things to the wider realms of humanity

  5. “Defending freedom should not come at such a cost…” You nailed it right there. For a supposedly civilized species, we spend a lot of time encroaching on and fighting with others for inexplicable reasons.

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