The Single Solider: a moving war-time drama by George Costigan

The Single Solider: a moving war-time drama by George Costigan

Author:George Costigan [Costigan, George]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloodhound Books - historical fiction
Published: 2021-05-05T22:00:00+00:00


Sara came with the child, who wouldn’t enter Jacques’ house again. So they stood on his steps and Zoe knocked on the door. It was flung open by a man desperately hoping for a letter. When Sara told him Jerome had lived he flooded with joy, relief and Envy and went back inside, hurt again. They went to tell Ardelle.

Zoe’s eyes gaped at the ageing woman her mother said was her friend. Sara failed to find words of comfort as she saw how deep news of Jerome’s survival ravaged at the remnants of the woman’s Hope.

When Galtier brought him nothing, no letter, no card, nothing for three new days in a row Jacques walked down to his beech copse at highest noon with the big axe and swung and cut and swung and ripped the buried blade out and swung and cut and felled and chopped and split till it was evening and he was exhausted. And had enough fire wood for this winter and the next. He left it there. Not enough. Not enough. No letter, yet. Work. Wait.



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