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war stories by<font color="#E5E5E5"> mr.</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Ostrow</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Blin</font> a year before<font color="#E5E5E5"> he died</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my grandfather</font> told<font color="#E5E5E5"> me a story he was in the way most</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">old soldiers often are a no-nonsense or</font> bright man a few words<font color="#E5E5E5"> it was the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">morning</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> following my 20th birthday</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">telephoned me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> at</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> 9:30 on the dart</font> requesting my presence at<font color="#CCCCCC"> his house in</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> outskirts of celkon approximately a</font> half an hour's drive<font color="#CCCCCC"> I arrived</font> nursing a hangover<font color="#E5E5E5"> from</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the previous</font> night<font color="#E5E5E5"> and he offered</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> me a cigarette</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> when</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I hesitated</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he just laughed and told</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> me</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that he knew I smoked</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> then he would</font> not tell my father we sat together on <font color="#E5E5E5">his porch and smoked in silence watching</font> the waves crash against the Devonshire <font color="#E5E5E5">coast eventually stubbed out the boat of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">his silk court and produced a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> shoebox</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">which he handed to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> me I want to tell you</font> about the war he<font color="#CCCCCC"> sent his</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> speech slow</font> and slurred from a minor<font color="#CCCCCC"> stroke that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he</font> suffered<font color="#CCCCCC"> two years</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> prior knowing how he</font> felt on the matter for he had not even congratulated<font color="#E5E5E5"> me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on my successful</font> application to join the army<font color="#CCCCCC"> several</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">weeks</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> prior I said granddad</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you don't</font> have to I need<font color="#CCCCCC"> to he said open the box I</font> obliged<font color="#E5E5E5"> inside was a beret wrapped</font> around three items<font color="#CCCCCC"> a key a tubular</font> bundle of tissue paper and something <font color="#E5E5E5">heavy in oil cloth</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I put the Box down</font> and picked up the<font color="#E5E5E5"> King admiring the</font> intricate brass work and<font color="#E5E5E5"> the unusually</font> complex<font color="#CCCCCC"> planed</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the only other person</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that knew this story was your</font> grandmother<font color="#E5E5E5"> and she's gone now</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I won't</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">be around forever either you know it's</font> important people know we were silent<font color="#E5E5E5"> for</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">a couple of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> minutes it sounds selfish</font> but<font color="#CCCCCC"> I hate when</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> all</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> people talk so</font> fatalistically<font color="#E5E5E5"> that said my curiosity</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">was piqued by the grim</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> show-and-tell</font> atmosphere he lit another cigarette letting the flame of his<font color="#E5E5E5"> match linger</font> just long enough<font color="#CCCCCC"> that the</font> about its hand and just began to curl and<font color="#E5E5E5"> blacken then he shook it out</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> joined the war<font color="#CCCCCC"> to learned all through</font> school<font color="#CCCCCC"> my friend Nick and I just wanted</font> to<font color="#E5E5E5"> be heroes when the time finally</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> came</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and we were gearing up to fight the</font> Nazis<font color="#CCCCCC"> in France our</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> damn unit was</font> diverted<font color="#E5E5E5"> well he sent asked he took a</font> deep drag on the smoke<font color="#CCCCCC"> channel islands</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">they are only part</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the British Isles</font> to<font color="#E5E5E5"> be occupied by the Germans</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> coinciding</font> with the<font color="#E5E5E5"> liberation of France we were</font> preparing to<font color="#E5E5E5"> attack the island of Jersey</font> when the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Gerry surrendered</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> just a few</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">hundred of them holed up in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> their raft</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Warren's in the cliffs we marched right</font> in and rounded<font color="#E5E5E5"> up all the troops he</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Paulist</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> an attempt the cigarette with a</font> four thing so that<font color="#E5E5E5"> glowing ashes tumbled</font> ferment and was snuffed out by the wind like a miniature<font color="#CCCCCC"> dying star the night</font> after<font color="#E5E5E5"> the surrender</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Nick and I were</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">sitting in the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> pot</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> being brought</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> drinks</font> by<font color="#E5E5E5"> the locals</font> when a woman<font color="#E5E5E5"> burst in from the rain</font> crying and shouting for help<font color="#CCCCCC"> naturally</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">we asked her what was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> wrong</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and she</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> told</font> us<font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> her</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> children had been</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> taken</font> hostage and bastard by the name of<font color="#CCCCCC"> Peter</font> saw her he was some<font color="#CCCCCC"> kind of priest that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the Nazis</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> had brought over</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> with</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> them</font> when they'd landed also she said Nick asked where he'd<font color="#CCCCCC"> taken the kids and she</font> said that he<font color="#CCCCCC"> had</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> stolen a rowboat and</font> was on his<font color="#CCCCCC"> way</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to a little offshoot</font> island called papal<font color="#CCCCCC"> Rock</font> she was sure that he<font color="#E5E5E5"> was going to kill</font> them<font color="#E5E5E5"> Nick and I ran out</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to our superiors</font> but as soon<font color="#E5E5E5"> as we mentioned Abel wrong</font> they wanted to<font color="#E5E5E5"> call for help from</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> Americans and wait until light they took our rifles away and told<font color="#E5E5E5"> us</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> forget the<font color="#CCCCCC"> whole thing but</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I would</font> sooner have<font color="#CCCCCC"> been court-martialed and let</font> some American GI have all the<font color="#E5E5E5"> glory</font> this was our<font color="#E5E5E5"> fact our war and no matter</font> how small it<font color="#CCCCCC"> was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> how insignificant in</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the grand scheme of things we would</font> fight it<font color="#CCCCCC"> this is</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> our home you know</font> we stole<font color="#E5E5E5"> the boat of our own and set out</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">into the storm</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and wish I'd stop to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">think about things for a second but I</font> was young<font color="#E5E5E5"> and stupid</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we both were</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">granddad</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> put the cigarette down and</font> unwrapped the<font color="#CCCCCC"> old cloth inside it was a</font> large<font color="#E5E5E5"> old-fashioned looking pistol with</font> faded wooden<font color="#CCCCCC"> grymps Jesus</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> granddad are</font> you allowed<font color="#CCCCCC"> to have that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> winked what</font> they don't<font color="#E5E5E5"> know won't hurt</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> them</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> must</font> true then it's<font color="#E5E5E5"> true now</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> at</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> one</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> itting</font> cards from a Yank<font color="#E5E5E5"> back in London before</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">we set out</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> for the islands nobody knew I</font> had it<font color="#CCCCCC"> so they couldn't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> take it away he</font> sat down the gun and<font color="#CCCCCC"> stoked the smoke</font> back<font color="#E5E5E5"> in his mouth exhaling blue fumes</font> and<font color="#E5E5E5"> the dying Sun that was slipping</font> beneath the horizon<font color="#E5E5E5"> long story</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> short</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we</font> land alone on this bleak<font color="#E5E5E5"> old rock right</font> in the middle<font color="#E5E5E5"> of a storm lack</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> as the</font> devil's eyes and so sharp<font color="#E5E5E5"> and craggy</font> than its sliced<font color="#E5E5E5"> wallop</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> like</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> boots right</font> along the<font color="#E5E5E5"> soul there was one building on</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">this island</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a wooden shack overlooking</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> beach it was dark</font> not just<font color="#E5E5E5"> because of the time</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of day but</font> like you<font color="#E5E5E5"> couldn't see more than five</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">feet in front of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I remember looking</font> up at the sky and seen the clouds all the<font color="#CCCCCC"> top by lights flashing</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from the</font> inside like big stone lanterns the clouds were coiling<font color="#CCCCCC"> around above Babel</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">rock and there was a hole in the very</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">center above the house not just a hole</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the clouds like in the sky itself</font> there were no stars just<font color="#E5E5E5"> a blacked empty</font> space sucking in<font color="#CCCCCC"> the storm clouds as we</font> were<font color="#E5E5E5"> heading up the beach</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> but nothing</font> but<font color="#E5E5E5"> the light to show us the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> way</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I swear</font> to<font color="#CCCCCC"> God</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">it looked like</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the rain was falling</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> up</font> into that hole in<font color="#E5E5E5"> the sky rendered</font> poorest and soaked on a cigarette<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> tip glow<font color="#CCCCCC"> and brightly and illuminated</font> his<font color="#E5E5E5"> face with a faint orange hue then he</font> continued<font color="#CCCCCC"> I pooped it open the door of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the house waving the gun around like a</font> madman but it was<font color="#E5E5E5"> deserted we poked around and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">eventually came across a trapdoor under</font> a carpet beneath<font color="#E5E5E5"> the shack was stone</font> steps<font color="#E5E5E5"> coiling downwards into a handful</font> of rooms carved into the rock<font color="#CCCCCC"> itself</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> not</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">like rooms for people though the</font> dimensions were all wrong<font color="#CCCCCC"> the corridors</font> were really tall about<font color="#CCCCCC"> nine feet high</font> but so narrow<font color="#E5E5E5"> we</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> had to turn sideways to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">even go through them everything was</font> covered in<font color="#CCCCCC"> wood scratchings too in the</font> walls and on<font color="#E5E5E5"> the ceiling</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> roman numerals</font> I think everything was quiet<font color="#CCCCCC"> he said for</font> the storm outside<font color="#CCCCCC"> and we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> were just</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">starting to regret</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> even going there</font> heroism<font color="#CCCCCC"> we'll know when we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> rounded a</font> corner and found<font color="#E5E5E5"> the children he needed</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">his brow and so bloody sight I'll never</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">forget they were stood in a ring in this</font> big oval-shaped room their eyes were all rolled back so you couldn't<font color="#E5E5E5"> see the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">pupils</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they were each reading from a</font> little bunk<font color="#CCCCCC"> like a Bible but I couldn't</font> understand a word<font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> what they were</font> saying it<font color="#E5E5E5"> wasn't German or Latin or any</font> language<font color="#CCCCCC"> I know</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> before I could say</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">anything or do anything I heard a voice</font> from<font color="#CCCCCC"> behind me</font> horrible<font color="#E5E5E5"> deep resounding it said halt</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and I turned around and there's</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Peter</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">this fat</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> cherry bastard in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> priests</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> robes</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and he's got a little waffle pistol to</font> Nick's hand told me<font color="#E5E5E5"> to drop</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my gun</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> kick it over<font color="#E5E5E5"> to him and I mean of course</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I did this was Nick he lived two doors</font> down<font color="#CCCCCC"> for me my entire</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> life</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he was my</font> best<font color="#E5E5E5"> friend</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> being</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a hero is nothing when</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">it costs you everything grandpa paused</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">saw his leathery cheeks glistening wet</font> with tears then he blew<font color="#CCCCCC"> Knicks brains out</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> just like</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that shut him in the side</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of the head i</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">lunch for him trying</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to grab</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the gun and</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">he shot me</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> true shattered my kneecap</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> so</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">why I need this he tempt the heavy stick</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he toppled around on as long as I</font> knew<font color="#E5E5E5"> him then he flicked away the end of</font> his cigarette<font color="#E5E5E5"> and reopened the pack with</font> his trembling fingers it was empty <font color="#CCCCCC">I handed him</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> my half smoked one and he</font> nodded<font color="#E5E5E5"> his head in thanks</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I passed out</font> he said his face no loss to<font color="#CCCCCC"> the rush of</font> night<font color="#E5E5E5"> when I came to his face was inches</font> away from mine<font color="#CCCCCC"> I could</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> figure this</font> breath on my cheek<font color="#E5E5E5"> he stank of rotten</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">meat</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> there was something wrong with his</font> eyes<font color="#E5E5E5"> too</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> black black</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> as that hole in the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">sky he spoke to me then he asked me in</font> broken<font color="#E5E5E5"> English if I believed in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> God I</font> could<font color="#CCCCCC"> barely speak the pain was too much</font> but<font color="#CCCCCC"> I nodded and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he asked me if I would</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">like to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> meet him</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> thought then</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that he</font> was<font color="#E5E5E5"> just threatening to kill me to send</font> me<font color="#E5E5E5"> to meet my</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> maker so I shook my head</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> think that surprised him he stood</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">up and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> walked away</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from me to the wall</font> opposite<font color="#E5E5E5"> and that's when I saw the door</font> for the<font color="#CCCCCC"> first time it was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> massive almost</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">touching the ceiling around</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> four feet</font> wide<font color="#E5E5E5"> and it was made of some kind of</font> black<font color="#E5E5E5"> wrong it had carved on it an apple</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">tree</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and there was a snake</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> coiling down</font> the trunk<font color="#E5E5E5"> the snake had its head turned</font> side on to you and instead<font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> an eye</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">there was a weird jagged keyhole he went</font> to the kids chanting throughout all this <font color="#CCCCCC">and picked up a key this key</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> off the</font> pedestal they were gathered<font color="#E5E5E5"> around</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">granddad gestured at the key</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it's brass</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Tuukka</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hand glinting beneath the</font> glow of<font color="#CCCCCC"> his</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> cigarette</font> Peter said he<font color="#E5E5E5"> spent</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> eleven years</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of his</font> life<font color="#E5E5E5"> secretly visiting Babel Rock</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">measuring the keyhole</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and designing</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a</font> key to fit<font color="#CCCCCC"> and asked him whether he put</font> the door there<font color="#CCCCCC"> and he gave</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> me an aunt</font> long<font color="#E5E5E5"> and told me it had been there</font> before men even<font color="#E5E5E5"> walked the earth then he</font> unlocked the<font color="#E5E5E5"> door and stepped backwards</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">saying</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> mind God</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he can foresee and then</font> something started<font color="#E5E5E5"> to push the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> door open</font> from<font color="#E5E5E5"> the other side as it opened just a</font> crack or<font color="#CCCCCC"> the candles in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the room went</font> out and we<font color="#E5E5E5"> were in done at the only</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">light was coming</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> from the lantern in the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">next room</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and it was just me Peter and</font> what was ever opening the door<font color="#E5E5E5"> and all</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the while the kids were chanting and</font> singing<font color="#CCCCCC"> had opened a few more inches</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> a hand<font color="#E5E5E5"> came through all charred and</font> calloused but it wasn't a human<font color="#E5E5E5"> hand</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> god</font> no it was small with long hooked fingertips<font color="#CCCCCC"> and it called around the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> edge</font> of the door<font color="#E5E5E5"> as though it were cautious</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of entering the room as it did the I</font> began to taste of<font color="#E5E5E5"> seawater and sulfur</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and I was more scared then than I've</font> ever been<font color="#E5E5E5"> in my entire life</font> I told my eyes away<font color="#E5E5E5"> dry myself off to</font> 1.45 and then I turned<font color="#E5E5E5"> around and I shot</font> Peter in the<font color="#E5E5E5"> back</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> pow</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> mined</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> with a</font> pistol in<font color="#E5E5E5"> his</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hand his blood splashed</font> across<font color="#E5E5E5"> the door</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> war but it also</font> landed<font color="#E5E5E5"> on that hand as soon as it came</font> in contact<font color="#E5E5E5"> with blond it went crazy then</font> started tightening<font color="#E5E5E5"> its grip on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the door</font> and started<font color="#E5E5E5"> pushing it was solid stone</font> about<font color="#CCCCCC"> a foot thick and this thing was</font> just shoving it open I forgot my pain then fear was giving me strength and I limped over<font color="#CCCCCC"> the room and</font> slammed<font color="#E5E5E5"> my shoulder against the door I</font> must have surprised because it gave<font color="#CCCCCC"> way and I heaved it with</font> every ounce of<font color="#CCCCCC"> strength of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> my body</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">god I was tough as a lad he sucked</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> on a</font> smoke<font color="#E5E5E5"> the tip flaring bright against the</font> night<font color="#E5E5E5"> I almost</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hadn't</font> the door was almost closed but that hand <font color="#CCCCCC">and the last and monstera</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hand stood</font> there reaching around<font color="#E5E5E5"> in me trying to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">grab my arm</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I pulled out my boot knife</font> and I hacked off one of its fingers it held<font color="#E5E5E5"> or maybe that was just the storm</font> above us but the hand retreated and I slammed<font color="#E5E5E5"> the door closed then to my</font> horror the door shuddered and opened a crack it was throwing its weight against it desperate to get to our world <font color="#CCCCCC">I pushed</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it back and then I noticed the</font> key sticking out beside my hand<font color="#E5E5E5"> I forced</font> the door closed<font color="#CCCCCC"> one last time then I</font> turned that key<font color="#E5E5E5"> and threw it away from</font> me across<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> room the second the key</font> left the door<font color="#E5E5E5"> the banging stopped</font> everything was<font color="#CCCCCC"> silent the kids all kinda</font> jolted awake like sleepwalkers and started crying<font color="#E5E5E5"> all of us were covered in</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">nyx blonde</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Peter's her finger I</font> hacked off flared<font color="#E5E5E5"> up caught fire and in</font> seconds was nothing but bone<font color="#CCCCCC"> I went to</font> Nick but<font color="#CCCCCC"> he was long gone so I picked up</font> the gun and<font color="#CCCCCC"> went to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Peter instead he</font> looked up at me<font color="#E5E5E5"> and he said something</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">words that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> mecco around my head every</font> night it further<font color="#E5E5E5"> dick</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Peterson</font> I shot him<font color="#CCCCCC"> again and again until</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> or no</font> bullets left<font color="#E5E5E5"> in my gun and he was</font> unrecognizable<font color="#CCCCCC"> and still and then the</font> pain hit me<font color="#CCCCCC"> again and I blacked out</font> Grenda<font color="#E5E5E5"> took a final drag on his</font> cigarette<font color="#E5E5E5"> then he ground it into the</font> ashtray he<font color="#E5E5E5"> sat on moving and speaking in</font> his garden silhouettes<font color="#E5E5E5"> picked out white</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">edge by the stars like marble statues</font> seated in an eternal for the men<font color="#E5E5E5"> that had sailed across the</font> sea and<font color="#E5E5E5"> never returned</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I guessed at him and in the Holland</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he</font> could almost be the fit powerfully-built young man in the photographs that<font color="#E5E5E5"> had</font> adorned the walls<font color="#E5E5E5"> of this house before</font> grandmother and passed away<font color="#CCCCCC"> I had no</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">idea what to think or to feel of how</font> much of<font color="#CCCCCC"> his story</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was true but I was</font> enthralled<font color="#E5E5E5"> by his</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> wild what happened</font> then<font color="#CCCCCC"> ran</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> dad as he replied clouds began</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to shift over</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the stars like curtains</font> being drawn over<font color="#E5E5E5"> a stage so</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that his</font> words seemed to come from<font color="#E5E5E5"> some</font> unspecified points in the darkness<font color="#E5E5E5"> and I</font> was speaking to a ghost when I came to I heard<font color="#CCCCCC"> shouting from far above commands</font> being given boots on the stairs<font color="#CCCCCC"> english</font> voices<font color="#CCCCCC"> i was sure i grabbed the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> gun and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">shoved it inside my</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> jacket I knew that</font> if my superiors<font color="#CCCCCC"> knew about it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> had been</font> even deeper<font color="#CCCCCC"> shit than I already was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> then</font> I saw Nick<font color="#E5E5E5"> lying there on the ground</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> I knew<font color="#CCCCCC"> that I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> had to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> get something</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> some</font> proof<font color="#E5E5E5"> so that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> other</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> people would know</font> that his death hadn't been in vain I grew up the key and put it into<font color="#E5E5E5"> my</font> pocket<font color="#E5E5E5"> but then I figured it's just a</font> key could<font color="#CCCCCC"> be for anything and I saw that</font> finger<font color="#E5E5E5"> the one I'd hacked off the hand</font> of<font color="#E5E5E5"> God whatever</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the hell that thing was</font> it was just a charred bone by now but<font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font> was intact<font color="#E5E5E5"> so I grabbed</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> too as I</font> stuck it<font color="#CCCCCC"> into my pocket men</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> burst into</font> the room just<font color="#E5E5E5"> like paratroopers and with</font> camel paint smeared over their faces<font color="#E5E5E5"> no</font> symbols of sigils on their uniforms either next thing I know<font color="#E5E5E5"> someone's</font> sticking a Sten gun in my face<font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> yelling<font color="#E5E5E5"> at me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to identify myself</font> naturally<font color="#CCCCCC"> I did and they talked amongst</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">themselves for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a few minutes</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> then they</font> dragged<font color="#CCCCCC"> me out of the room</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and onto</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> island itself the storm had blown itself out<font color="#E5E5E5"> one of them sat with me</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I tried talking to him but he just</font> straight-up blanked<font color="#CCCCCC"> me I guess there</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">must have been some special forces of</font> some sort<font color="#CCCCCC"> on</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> strict orders not</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to talk</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to prisoners I think I heard gunfire</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">from</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Thomas below but I was so far</font> above them I couldn't<font color="#CCCCCC"> be sure</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> as far</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> as</font> I could<font color="#E5E5E5"> recall the only living things</font> down there with<font color="#CCCCCC"> the SpecOps boys and</font> those kids<font color="#E5E5E5"> so what they could have been</font> shooting at I have no idea eventually<font color="#CCCCCC"> a rescue boat shows up</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> medic seized my leg lost some big</font> brass<font color="#CCCCCC"> guys</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> lecture me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the importance</font> of subtlety before I was allowed<font color="#CCCCCC"> on the</font> bone though<font color="#E5E5E5"> he straight-up told me that</font> if I'd breathe<font color="#CCCCCC"> a word of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> what</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I saw</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> on</font> Babel<font color="#CCCCCC"> rocked to anyone my friends that</font> townspeople anyone they'd shoot me then when I got<font color="#E5E5E5"> back</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to Jersey</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> my commanding</font> officer sent me down in<font color="#CCCCCC"> his office and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">told me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that I would be retired due to</font> my<font color="#E5E5E5"> injuries and that if I kept my</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> mouth</font> shut<font color="#CCCCCC"> I get a war pension</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">British</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> government</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and I'd be</font> comfortable<font color="#E5E5E5"> for the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> rest of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> my</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> life I</font> asked<font color="#E5E5E5"> about Nick</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and the man went</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> all</font> silent<font color="#E5E5E5"> then he told me that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> his next</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font> kin would be looked after<font color="#CCCCCC"> I think they</font> got the<font color="#E5E5E5"> newspapers to report</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> him dying</font> as a hero fighting<font color="#CCCCCC"> Jerry commandos or</font> something<font color="#E5E5E5"> I never read past the first</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">few lines</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of that article I just kept</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">seeing him in that cave gone to his head</font> and eyes<font color="#E5E5E5"> pleading for me to save him so</font> you never told<font color="#E5E5E5"> anyone</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I asked</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he must</font> have rounded on me then because<font color="#CCCCCC"> I felt</font> spittle spray on my face as he spoke<font color="#E5E5E5"> who</font> would you<font color="#E5E5E5"> have me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> tell nobody would have</font> believed<font color="#CCCCCC"> me</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> would there they just</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> think</font> I was insulting<font color="#E5E5E5"> Nick's memory</font> trying to steal the glory<font color="#E5E5E5"> from him I</font> loved<font color="#E5E5E5"> him like</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a brother too much to</font> take his heroic story away from him as for my<font color="#E5E5E5"> pension</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I nearly gave all of it</font> away<font color="#E5E5E5"> to veterans charities and such</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> worked the fields<font color="#E5E5E5"> of this countryside</font> until<font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 72 and every penny</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I spirit</font> I'm sorry<font color="#E5E5E5"> granddad</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I didn't mean I began</font> and laid a hand on my shoulder<font color="#CCCCCC"> it's okay</font> I<font color="#E5E5E5"> should have snapped at you</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he struck a</font> match<font color="#E5E5E5"> and unwrapped the tissue</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> paper</font> inside<font color="#CCCCCC"> long and angular the lay a</font> skeletal humanoid finger far too long to <font color="#CCCCCC">be from a man</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and with bone hardened to</font> a point at<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> tip like a claw</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I guess</font> at it<font color="#E5E5E5"> in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> awe in horror of what</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">whispering I'm so sorry granddad I'm</font> really really sorry<font color="#E5E5E5"> he smiled and patted</font> me on the shoulder Danny<font color="#E5E5E5"> blue hunt the match and I heard</font> him gathering the three items<font color="#CCCCCC"> he had</font> shown me<font color="#E5E5E5"> and back into</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> box it was as</font> I unlocked my car that I heard him call to me again Matthew<font color="#E5E5E5"> he was standing in</font> his doorway<font color="#E5E5E5"> lit from behind in otherwise</font> featureless darkness well<font color="#E5E5E5"> done forgetting your job be careful</font> over there<font color="#E5E5E5"> in Afghanistan I mean always</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">rely on your judgement no matter what</font> they<font color="#E5E5E5"> tell you he closed the door</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> i</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> sat</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">in my car in the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> dark</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for nearly an hour</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">thinking</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> about what he'd</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> said when I got</font> home my father was already<font color="#E5E5E5"> in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> bed and I</font> lay<font color="#CCCCCC"> awake gazing at the dark ceiling</font> imagining it to<font color="#CCCCCC"> be</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that void a center</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that storm my grandfather had seen all</font> those years<font color="#CCCCCC"> ago he left</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> me the house in</font> as well<font color="#CCCCCC"> I retired from</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> army after</font> being shot in<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hip during an ambush</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">in Kabul and I was looking forward to</font> the peace<font color="#CCCCCC"> that grandpa's old place on</font> the coast<font color="#E5E5E5"> would surely bring when I was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">moving</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> some of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his old things into the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">attic I stumbled across the shoebox</font> again it was all there<font color="#E5E5E5"> the gun the key</font> the finger made the<font color="#E5E5E5"> realization</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of some</font> strange dream<font color="#E5E5E5"> the memories of that night</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">floated back and I sat down and cried</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the first time since</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his funeral</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> ferry to Jersey recently and then</font> hired a<font color="#CCCCCC"> local fisherman</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to take me to</font> Babel<font color="#CCCCCC"> wrong under</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the Sun with nothing</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">but the laughter of sea birds in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my ears</font> and the<font color="#E5E5E5"> taste of salt water in the air</font> it was actually a<font color="#E5E5E5"> relatively peaceful</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">place the eye of the storm</font> there was no Shack<font color="#E5E5E5"> though in any suppose</font> it was probably destroyed<font color="#CCCCCC"> shortly after</font> the events<font color="#E5E5E5"> of my</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> grandfather's story I</font> found a heavy iron hatch<font color="#E5E5E5"> under which was</font> a stairwell<font color="#E5E5E5"> but</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that ended in a square</font> brick room scrawled with<font color="#E5E5E5"> graffiti and</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">strewn with empty crisp packets</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> when the</font> sunset was and its apex<font color="#E5E5E5"> licking the</font> ocean with a long orange tongue<font color="#CCCCCC"> I rent</font> the three<font color="#CCCCCC"> items in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his beret and held</font> them off the cliff the hungry<font color="#CCCCCC"> fronting jaws of the sea</font> snapped them up then I sent with a thermos<font color="#E5E5E5"> of tea and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> imagined grandad and</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">neck</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> sitting together on a boat destined</font> for London full of stories<font color="#E5E5E5"> of heroism</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">perhaps he believes the story best</font> forgotten that he wasn't<font color="#E5E5E5"> a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hero</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but I believe</font> differently you you
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Channel: NaturesTemper
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Keywords: Horror (Film Genre), Demon (Character Species), predators, creepy, pasta, spooky, story, haunted, monster, myuuji, my, dead, reddit, no, sleep, nosleep, narration, naturestemper, natures, temper, creature, reality, Creepypasta, real, life, ghost, twist, shadows, wolf, incompetech, weird, suggested, reading, being, demon, ASMR, British accent, national, park, service, forestry
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Length: 23min 15sec (1395 seconds)
Published: Mon Dec 25 2017
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