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Submitted to Contest #235
(*Sensitive theme: description of war*)He had been told not to join. On no uncertain terms. His mother, and then his father, had sat him down (his mother fiercely, his father solemn) and told him that it was the errand of so many fools. That their hideout in the hills would echo with the sounds of gunfire and screams and young boys’ blood would wash into the rivers with the rain. But I can fight, he protested.You can die, his mother railed, her anger magnifying her height until it seemed she was towering over him.This is not a war—not a...
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