A Nightingale in Winter by Margaret K. Johnson

Author:Margaret K. Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Omnific Publishing
Published: 2015-08-03T16:00:00+00:00

A sniper’s bullet could come at any minute. Leo could feel their eyes on him in the darkness. Fancied even that he could detect the twitch of chilled Hun fingers on triggers. The taste of danger was intoxicating, the clamor of his senses not even dulled when Montague vomited down his back. If anything, this added to Leo’s pleasure. The stench was a part of the ugliness, and ugliness was the supreme ruler here, conjured up initially by Man, but now possessing a life of its own. It had become an uncontrollable beast, its purpose to inspire its subjects to commit increasingly vile and inhuman acts against each other.

And Leo’s mission was to record this palpable evil. He’d been selected for this very purpose. For this reason, he knew he wouldn’t be killed. The injury to his head had been designed as an experience to add a legitimate intensity to his work, and as such he welcomed it. But he wouldn’t be killed, because he hadn’t yet had the chance to complete his mission. The drawings he’d made in the shell hole had been a start, but they’d merely whetted his appetite. He needed to do more drawing. Most of all, however, he needed to paint. Not that either activity would be easily achieved in a hospital. But he would find a way. He had to.

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