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Weekly Contest #80
I awoke suddenly to somebody shaking me and the sound of someone calling my name like a siren. Startled, I thrashed in the sheets of my makeshift cot. Being an American Navy soldier, I was used to the old rickety “bed” and calm sway of the boat; but because it was early in my career, and I was only a cadet, waking up to alarming noises and motions still shocked me. “What’s going on? What’s happening?” I gasped as the strange person stopped shaking me. When my eyes adjusted, I found Jacob Harrison, a fellow cadet, staring back at me wi...
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