A Desert Lament

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An army veteran from the desert campaign lives with the shame of a murderous crime he and his friends committed in the war. One by one his friends have died carrying the guilt to their graves, but he wants to go out in a state of total contrition – on Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph.

“Excellent, well written, well expressed. You describe a guilt from which the narrator cannot escape. The narrator has no one to turn to; he cannot admit the crime even to his closest family. He has to live with it, the more so every Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph. By climbing inside the head of the old soldier, you are allowing the readers to participate in the man’s guilt, but also to experience the events that unfolded in the desert. You have managed successfully to bring the readers close to the story and to the characters. Very well done.”
Second Prize in the ‘Writing can be Murder’ competition at the Winchester Writers’ Festival 2014.

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I regard my reflection as the train heads towards the city. There aren’t any remembered middle years, no bridge from fit to decrepit, from brown to grey, from straight to bent, just the waking realisation – God, I’m too old for this! I’m a shrunken effete in an old regimental uniform with a few medals that jangle as I shimmy along. White wisps of hair cover a sunburnt gnarled membrane hidden beneath my jaunty cap. My eyes moist and tireless are the only part of me that shows that I was ever something other than what I have become…

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Type

Shorter Short Story
Genre

War, Remembrance, Regret

1 review for A Desert Lament

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