THE LOCAL GHOSTS

When the troops had gone home the ghosts of the fallen stayed to haunt the place where they fell.

When the troops had gone home the ghosts of the fallen stayed to haunt the place where they fell. Unfinished business, tormented souls, the usual story. They sulked around the desert highways where IEDs had halted their earthly progress and watched as the lives around them crawled on. In watching them did the soldier ghosts regret the cruelty they had w…