Challenge
July Drabble Challenge: MURRICA
Tell me a story tied to the USA in exactly 100 words. Winning entry will be selected by me and will be a prose, not poetry, submission. Wow me with your lean, mean, American tale in honor of the Fourth of July. Take it in a patriotic direction, an ironic spin, tell a war story, or examine the modern United States with a critical eye (or all of the above). Tie in to the theme in any creative storytelling way you can. I'll read and judge the entries in early August.
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I’m Coming, Murrica
I'm drowning in sticky sweat, feeling vulnerable in the dense jungles of Vietnam. I avoid eye contact with the bright, young men trailing behind me as I lead them to their deaths. I distance myself to avoid the unbearable burden of losing dear brothers once again. But I know deep down that these men I eat with, I sleep with, I fight with cannot be forgotten no matter how hard I try. As I trudge through the muddy ground, I think of how maybe I should've been a little more selfish and asked her out despite the war. D*mned war.