The Sound of Fury by Stuart Minor

Author:Stuart Minor [Minor, Stuart]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

‘Where’d yow lot get to?’ Fred shouted, his voice echoing from amongst the vehicles that lay beside the road.

‘What’d you mean, we’ve been fetching your food, haven’t we?’ Jack said, as he rounded the side of the vehicle.

‘Yow took your bloody time,’ Fred replied, snatching the bag from Jack’s hand and swinging it onto the back of the lorry.

‘What are you doing?’

‘We’re moving.’

‘Have we found the battalion?’ Jack asked, as Fred helped him onto the back of the truck.

‘No, not yet, we’ve been told to go to an assembly area to the south where they’re gathering all the odds and sods,’ Fred said, as he pulled himself up onto the lorry, the engine shaking as it coughed to life, the shielded headlights flashing in front of the wheels as it pulled forward onto the road.

‘Guess what we heard on the radio,’ Reg said, his face holding an air of mystery as he looked at the section.

‘So, that’s what took yow so long, sat listening to the wireless were yow, whilst we all bloody starved,’ Fred said, his eyes looking in the bag. ‘Is this all yow have managed to find?’

‘Never mind that,’ Reg said, waving his hand dismissively. ‘We just found out that we’re digging in here. We heard it on the news of all bloody places.’

‘You don’t say,’ Sid said, his voice unimpressed as he tore open a packet of biscuits.

‘You’ve heard?’

‘The captain found out. Thirty Corps have gone back into the line, with Thirteen to the south.’

‘Where are our mob, then?’ Reg asked.

‘All the units from our corps are being sent back to the Delta, that’s what Davis was told,’ Sid replied.

‘We’re getting out of it?’ Reg asked, his voice hopeful.

‘Sounds that way, once they get things straightened out and the rest of the battalion shows up we’ll be heading back for a nice rest,’ Sid said, his voice happy.

‘We ain’t out of anything yet,’ Fred mumbled, the sound of a battery firing in the distance booming hollowly across the open plain as if to emphasise his point.

Jack stared out over the black earth as the lorry turned off the track and made its way into the desert, the heavy tyres struggling over the loose scree as the small convoy moved beneath the shadow filled sky.

‘Here,’ Fred said, pushing a chunk of corned beef into his hand.

‘Ta,’ Jack replied, chewing mechanically on the meat. He was tired and he could feel his eyes growing heavy as his ability to resist the need for sleep began to fail. He looked to the horizon as the sun vanished from sight, the last slip of light sinking below the earth as the darkness settled over the desert, his nerves jumping as a string of coloured flares blossomed above a distant ridge.

He was wound tight, he thought, his eyes smarting as a string of explosions flashed below the hanging flares, a hollow thunder echoing gently across the plain as the bombs burst amongst the shadows. By this time tomorrow they would be

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.