And then there were the spooks: Dark Dark Policing, A Sense of Place Magazine, 8 February, 2020.
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And Then There Were The Spooks Dark Dark Policing John Stapleton Feb 8 · 4 min read THE CAR ROSE SLOWLY from the fetid plains. For days, in tormented dreams, he had been a soldier going around a battlefield killing the wounded, firing shot after shot after shot. Most of the victims were already dead and his bullets thudded into corpses beginning to rot in terrible heat. Some, he knew, were play-acting death, hoping against hope they would be overlooked. Sometimes they begged for mercy, a final futile plea for life. Sometimes, their consciousness already slipping, they moaned as the bullets thudded into their flesh. Mostly, he was just firing bullets into corpses. He felt no regret. He would not be glad when it was over.
And then there were the spooks: Dark Dark Policing, A Sense of Place Magazine, 8 February, 2020.
And then there were the spooks: Dark Dark…
And then there were the spooks: Dark Dark Policing, A Sense of Place Magazine, 8 February, 2020.
And Then There Were The Spooks Dark Dark Policing John Stapleton Feb 8 · 4 min read THE CAR ROSE SLOWLY from the fetid plains. For days, in tormented dreams, he had been a soldier going around a battlefield killing the wounded, firing shot after shot after shot. Most of the victims were already dead and his bullets thudded into corpses beginning to rot in terrible heat. Some, he knew, were play-acting death, hoping against hope they would be overlooked. Sometimes they begged for mercy, a final futile plea for life. Sometimes, their consciousness already slipping, they moaned as the bullets thudded into their flesh. Mostly, he was just firing bullets into corpses. He felt no regret. He would not be glad when it was over.