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You couldn’t live close to war and not have it grab you eventually.

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Mahlia… understood Doctor Mahfouz and his blind rush into the village. He wasn’t trying to change them. He wasn’t trying to save anyone. He was just t...more

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Maggot twitch, some people called it. If you’d seen much of the war, you had it. Some more. Some less. But everybody had it.

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Her face was smeared with mud and blood and ash. Just another bit of debris in the wreckage of war.

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The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.