Thursday, October 05, 2017

last excerpt from Last Opus

...We don't kill defenseless women and children, do we Jim? Do we?' HIs hands are shaking.
Again Jim orders him back on course, cocking his gun. An infinite calm pervades the pilot like a balmy breeze through the soul of a man with no doubts, who knows for the first time what he must do. He refuses again and the co-pilot shoots him in the chest.and the mission is back on and the pattern continues - governments resolving their differences by killing each others' tax payers. On an ever grander scale.
'Who'd have guessed Paul for a traitor?' the co-pilot says to one of the crew as Hiroshima comes into range."
"He's not a traitor," Doreen Rampi yelled.
"He is so," yelled Ronnie, "and I'm glad he got shot.".....

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