In today’s snippet, Dru, her friend Dunyasha, and Branson (a member of the expedition) are making their way out of the wooded hills at night to Kutaisi, Georgia. They are armed in the event of trouble and, of course, trouble comes. Our party of three encounter men walking up the road from the opposite direction. The men have lanterns to light their way. Dru and her team take to the shallow ditch along side the road for cover. It’s touch and go if Dru and her companions will be discovered. Here’s the snippet:
… I saw the lanterns were very close and then I sneezed.
In a heart beat, four gun barrels were pointed at me. In the language I know best, English, I said, “I guess you boys found me.”
They said something in Georgian. I started to get up, when Dunyasha yelled, “Down!” The rapid fire “chu-chu-chu” of the suppressed Sten gun spoke. When the firing stopped, I waited for a moment before I looked up and saw Dunyasha looking at the bodies. Her figure was illumined by the light of the fallen lanterns.
If you write or read Dieselpunk, join in the fun: 8 Sentence Sunday on Dieselpunks.
[Originally posted 1 February 2015 on www.cwhawes.com.]
No comments:
Post a Comment