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Weekly Contest #364
Love Hurts The back road was lit by the headlights of two cars. A Sedan and a SUV. Light from a rising quarter moon struck their windshields as the evening dusk faded into night.Ahead rose the night shadowed hulk of an abandoned, two story mine tipple. The two vehicles stopped at the gate. The first driver, average height and thin, got out. With bolt cutters hanging from his right hand, he emitted a loud grunt to help snap the chain. The SUV pulled through and waited or the first car to pass him. The second man, slightly shorter but with a b...
Weekly Contest #303
Curse Words- Can blank out some letters if you want.It was late spring of 1964 when President Johnson disbanded our Army Reserve unit. Great for most of our unit. But I and four others got called up to active duty and a free flight to South Vietnam. I didn't have a choice. I served as a company clerk and the other four were construction workers with experience building an Interstate Highway in the mountains of east Tennessee.We found ourselves on an ARVN military base. ARVN being Army of the Republic of South Vietnam. I had no clue were I ...
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