You are currently browsing the tag archive for the ‘War’ tag.
Tag Archive
Inaugural Address
February 8, 2009 in 299 Words, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Occupation, Politics, Society, Very Short Novels | Tags: Danger, Politics, Speech, Threat, War | by davidbdale | 13 comments
Our country is a mess, my friends, and no president can do much about it. The economy is what you believe. You wanted change? Start believing. Read the rest of this entry »
Good Girls
February 11, 2008 in 299 Words, Business, Crime, Death, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Murder, Politics, Religion, Short stories, Suicide bomb, Terrorism, Uncategorized, Very Short Novels, Writing | Tags: Abuse, Girl, Murder, Politics, Terrorism, Vengeance, War | by davidbdale | 10 comments
We all know the good girls and the men they travel with. I saw them this morning at the pet market and didn’t think anything of it. They were receiving instruction, yes, that is often the case; it is an education for them to be among people. Read the rest of this entry »
Truth at War
October 25, 2007 in 299 Words, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Journalism, Short stories, Stories, Very Short Novels, Violence, War, Writing | Tags: Hostility, Journalism, Killer, Truth, War, Work | by davidbdale | 11 comments
He says he has to release the tape in service to the truth. I think he means The Truth, but the truth is the story’s not his to tell. He’s embedded with us again, running tape while we clear this mosque again of insurgents and search it again for weapons. Read the rest of this entry »
Impress Only Me
September 12, 2007 in 299 Words, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Politics, Short stories, Stories, Very Short Novels, Violence, Writing | Tags: Bed, Husband, Love, Terrorist, Touch, Violence, War, Wife | by davidbdale | 9 comments
Something so good and pure at the core of a man like my husband hardens to a bullet in the forge of an inhuman world. He might laugh at me for saying so. He doesn’t need me to sing his praise. Those who don’t know him will never admit his humility. Read the rest of this entry »
Surprise Ending
August 31, 2007 in 299 Words, Cinema, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literature, Refugee, Short stories, Stories, Very Short Novels, War, Writing | Tags: Child, Isolation, Movie, Orphan, Parent, Refugee, War, Yearning | by davidbdale | 11 comments
I’ve seen this movie fifty-nine times, but that’s not why it knows me. It’s set in a country that’s not my own, at a time I can only imagine. Mysterious things happen to families unlike families I know—still mysterious on a sixtieth viewing, though I know everything that will happen, and when, and every line. Read the rest of this entry »
Simple Lessons of War
March 25, 2007 in 299 Words, Flash Fiction, Very Short Novels | Tags: Death, Grief, Loss, Love, Politics, Teach, War, Work | by davidbdale | 8 comments
I teach fifth grade, nothing complicated: slavery, ratios and proportions, why the good side always prevails in war. Half my students at the Army base are children of Second Cavalry, currently deployed; Read the rest of this entry »
Resistance
January 30, 2007 in 299 Words, Books, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literature, novels, Poetry, reading, Short stories, Stories, Very Short Novels, Writing | Tags: Occupation, Politics, War | by davidbdale | 5 comments
They were torches to our matchsticks. They ate our city’s oxygen and everything else on the menu. In the early days of the occupation, we caught rare glimpses of them at the opera, the better cafes, at the racetrack calculating odds. Read the rest of this entry »
Kingdom Come
December 19, 2006 in 299 Words, Books, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literature, novels, Poetry, reading, Short stories, Stories, Very Short Novels, Writing | Tags: Conquest, God, Religion, War | by davidbdale | 5 comments
When the great wars began, hundreds of clans held sway over portions of the enormous land, each with its own gods and culture, totems, legends, marriage laws and methods of war. Read the rest of this entry »
Holes in the Sand
December 7, 2006 in 299 Words, Books, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literature, novels, Poetry, reading, Short stories, Stories, Very Short Novels, Writing | Tags: Kill, Politics, Terror, War | by davidbdale | 14 comments
The brain has a fuse. After years of threat and terror, the fuse blows, leaving a scar behind, a charred little plug of matter, once animated tissue. It can make a person mean. Read the rest of this entry »
Eat the Air
October 24, 2006 in 299 Words, Books, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Short stories, Stories, Very Short Novels, Writing | Tags: Book, Dystopia, History, Holocaust, Memory, Rabbi, Song, War | by davidbdale | 6 comments
The rabbi is on radio, telling the story every generation tells about itself. It was war, he says, and the papers didn’t reach our little town. Read the rest of this entry »
Very Short Novels 
Recent Comments