Stories tagged “marines”

  • Why

    The girl glared at me, eyes of ocean frozen, “Can you leave me alone?” She asked coldly. I shrugged and casually put my hands in my jean’s pockets, “Why?” I simply questioned, and she looked at me again, “Didn’...

  • Pashtun

    I was ten. On a Friday, after evening prayers, they came. They drove into our village in many trucks. I was outside the madras when they arrived. They stopped and got out of the trucks. I had seen foreign fighters before. I had seen the Taliban, the st...

  • We Danced all Night

    The ballroom was crowded when I stepped into the room. The music was loud and the beer was flowing. I worked my way through the gyrating bodies to the bar, and asked for a Fosters. Leaning back, my elbows on the bar, I scanned the room. ‘Humm,...

  • The Survivor - Part I

    “But, is he ready?” Staff Sergeant Jonas grew impatient with this pencil pushing, wire-rimmed glasses wearing, medic that was Doctor Benjamin Benson. “Well our tests have revealed—” “Screw your damn tests Doctor.” Jonas hated doctors....

  • The Survivor - Part II

    Patient ID # 58550-07 stood in his room waiting for his meds. Thomas, his former name, looked down at his clothes, they were white. He hated that colour. He wanted to rip it off and break out of his room, go out the exit and catch the next off-world tr...

  • Another Day In Paradise

    Like sardines in a can, we’re packed so tight inside the drop ship that we can barely move to breathe. 24 of us, our packs and our weapons are crammed into a space so small a cockroach would get claustrophobia. That’s the nature of our busi...

    • Author: Bob Liddil
    • Posted almost 2 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Before Forever

    She was a college student getting her Medical Degree. He was a proud Marine. They fell in love even though months would go by without them ever getting a chance to see each other. She wrote him letters everyday hoping to comfort him while he was bravin...

  • Invincible

    Hey Sunshine,what’s up? It’s me…remember? You look great for someone who’s comatose. Well anyway, I brought you something, a picture of us. Remember when we went to that photo booth and took all of those pictures? I’ll put...