Sunday, March 8, 2020

"Play Time" A short story by Craig Zimmerman

Colonel Robert Parker rummaged through his weapons cabinet and selected a pistol and a rifle.

Col. Parker took the weapons and left his bunker for the rubble-strewn streets of San Francisco. Ever since the last war, he had been protecting the city from enemy infiltrators.

A shot rang out and Parker dove behind some rubble. Peeking from behind the rubble, he tried to spot the enemy soldier. There was movement about a hundred yards away and Parker focused his binoculars on the area.

The enemy soldier was huddled behind a wrecked car. As carefully as possible, Parker crawled along the ground until he found himself directly behind the enemy infiltrator.

Despite his long military career, Parker hated violence, but there was no other choice in this case. After jumping to the rear of the enemy soldier, Parker emptied his water pistol at the man and then finished the job with a volley of foam darts from his rifle.











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