Adventure · fiction
Dinner Without the Uniforms
The Pentagon’s ceremonial hall smelled like floor wax, burnt coffee, and rain drying on a hundred military coats. Fear makes strange details impossible to forget. I remember the fluorescent lights humming overhead. I remember a chair scraping somewhere behind the first row. I remember the tiny split beside my thumbnail where I had worried the...
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- Adult readers
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- 6
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- fiction
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