Matt the Book Blogger got me started on flash fiction all those weeks ago, and here I am about to complete the 24th challenge!
Wow!
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The song this week… Stop the Cavalry by Jona Lewie
Enough
Tears streamed down his dust encrusted face.
He’d had enough.
It had been months and months of relentless ambushes, no breaks, and after weeks of not even thinking, he had looked at his watch, and the date said 25th Dec…
What he wouldn’t give to be back home, safe in the bosom of his family right now, giving gifts to his children, eating his wife’s usually inedible Christmas dinner, dozing in front of the TV as the Queen spoke…
But no.
He was stuck out here, in the heat of the desert… fighting a battle that didn’t want to end.
Ritu 2015
I hope this suits the song… possibly being more serious than the song makes you feel, with it’s jolly beat, but the message, it’s the same…
But I Smile Anyway... 