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    Drought
    Drought
    Drought
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    Drought

    By Martin Reed

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    Two battered soldiers, having recently escaped an ambush by insurgents, make their way through the unforgiving desert in the hopes of finding refuge and water.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMartin Reed
    Release dateJun 12, 2012
    ISBN9781476006826
    Drought
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    Martin Reed

    A chaotic and contradicting mess consisting of charisma, insecurity, ambition, indecisiveness and curiosity. Some day, all my swirling inadequacies will coalesce into a fruitful ball of coherence and I might even write about it.

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      Drought - Martin Reed

      DROUGHT

      By Martin Reed

      Published by Martin Reed

      Copyright © 2012 Martin Reed

      All rights reserved. No part of this book shall be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, photographic including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission from the author.

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      DROUGHT

      6:00 am

      The desert: an endless cycle of death; permeating death. Everything simply ceased to exist under its predatory watch: Humans, animals, plants, trees, shrubs, water.

      Confidence.

      The desert was a stratum that awaited the victim, observing its prey closely with lustful eyes as he or she stalked onwards, towards inevitable doom. Such was the way of its unforgiving domain. It made a mocking habit of reducing the strongest wills to nothing more than battered ash before their assimilation into its bowels.

      The morning sun greeted its friend below as the two exchanged an undisturbed mutual silence. They had a job to do, and they would get to it.

      8:43 am

      Cole could feel the sun’s warm rays beginning to intensify. It was only a matter of time before the unforgiving heat wave from the afternoon came calling. He checked his water flask. It was less than half full. At this rate, he’d be lucky to last another full day if he didn’t get out of the sun soon.

      Mathis, how much water you got? came the deep, dry voice of the now badly sunburnt Army Ranger. If dehydration wouldn’t kill him, the eventual skin cancer would.

      His taller, darker skinned comrade continued

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