Menolyrical; Final Friday Fiction

This FFF, am still sticking to the alphabet and today the inspiration is “W”. Therefore,

the book chosen is a biography, “Remembering Weary” (nickname of Sir Edward Dunlop); by Margaret Geddes, pub’d by Penguin.**

8 - intelligence

12 - successful

16 - flickering candle

TRENCH

There was burning. There was smell. Noxious and suffocating. It seemed there was blindness too, but somehow temporary, for there could be seen a ball of light through the painful eyelids. It reminded him of a flickering candle, but his experience told him it was the sun directly above him. He was on his back.

There was groaning. There was taste. Blood. Metallic and sour in his mouth. The groaning was his own, but it was only an accompaniment to the symphony of pain around him. The offensive was not successful. Had brought only a rain of fire.

Intelligence told him it was the last mortar shot which had spread his small band across the floor of the trench. Splattered might be the better word. He could feel the wetness and knew it to be more than his own flesh that was torn. He’d seen it often enough in other parts of the trenches and did not need his eyes to know now the scene of which he was a part. He felt incredibly alert to every sound, every trickle, every twitch.

There was pain. Yes, there it was. Then came the screaming. Then the silence.

LEST WE FORGET.

(202 words)

© Yamini Ali MacLean 2019

**April 25th is ANZAC Day - a day of remembrance of the fallen Australian and NZ troops in conflict. Weary Dunlop was a war hero, but a hero of peaceful society also and it is my honour and imperative to Never Forget.

...and yes I know this is published on the 26th...

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