In No Man's Land by Robert Wilton
Winner of the Leaf Winter Short Story Competition 2006
‘And I, who ran towards his guns screaming like a retarded child, and then lay shivering and bleeding and clotting in a muddy pool under his barbed wire, who am I to speak of foolishness?’
50 years after the First World War, a group of veterans returns to the trenches where they fought each other. Some have come to remember, some to forget. But neither process turns out to be as straightforward as they expected, as a series of revelations challenges their memories and values. The importance – and perhaps the impossibility – of the attempt to come to terms with our own past is exposed in this unpredictable and moving story.
Short Story
Sale Price £1.00
ISBN: 1905599250
Format: A6
32 Pages