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The Foxhole in the Front Yard

In Short Story Issue Seven by John SarmientoOctober 31, 2017

Gen chased insurgents, rode Humvees across Iraq, peeled walls with the .50 caliber machine gun. Once when he got back home he grabbed his pregnant wife Karen to dig a foxhole in the front yard and she wants mangoes in the morning.

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