(DOWNLOAD) "Minute of Angle (Short Story)" by Colorado Review: a journal of contemporary literature # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Minute of Angle (Short Story)
- Author : Colorado Review: a journal of contemporary literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 68 KB
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The sounds of saws, of the ground breaking, and of the gears of a crane come from the police station they're building below us. It's all that we listen to, except each other, for hours. The temperature is 98 degrees, but will probably reach 110 by 1400 hours. Dust blows across the landscape and covers everything, as if it were coughed up by some demon god cast off to eternity in the dry heat of the desert. I haven't seen a part of the country that isn't like this. We're on the fourth floor of an abandoned school. The classroom is empty but for a row of desks connected together to look like a pew. Harmon is studiously sitting down at one of these desks, looking through the scope on his M24. He's pointing his weapon out a large frame where a window once was. Shards of glass litter the floor along with torn pages from a book in a language we don't understand. There's the crunch of glass under our boots when we move. The walls are bare concrete, and everything from the classroom that can be gutted has been. Dust the color of chalk covers Harmon and makes him look like some ghost of himself. Through the frame of the window that once was, we see the entire perimeter of the station and the rooftops of cream-colored buildings that look like the work of a cubist painter interested in elevated squares, less concerned with what things mean than what they represent. Mosul. "Why are your people bombing these people?" asks Harmon, right eye glued to his sight.
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