Desperado in Iraq

Flash fiction.
Desperado
by Efraim Z. Graves

You were told in an email to expect your brother, Barry, the next day at 0900, and you pick him up at the bus stop, and he is quiet on the way home—deathly quiet—and that’s strange, because Barry used to be quite a talker before his tour in Iraq, before he [...]

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