The Faded Photograph
The mud in the trench tasted of copper and old rain, a thick slurry that coated Silas’s tongue with the grit of the earth he was trying to hold back. He was not fighting a man, not in the way the drill sergeant had taught him. He was fighting the stain. It was a dark, viscous thing, seeping up from the soil, ignoring the barbed wire, ignoring the sandbags, ignoring the very laws of physics that...
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