My Sister Called Me a Leech at Thanksgiving Until a Colonel Stood Up and Changed the Room

into the field was scheduled to deploy in seventy-two hours. The work required the precision it always required, a guard position transposed by ten meters, a patrol timing misread by five minutes, and people who trusted my work would not come home.

I slept for ninety minutes. My alarm went off at four. I dragged myself out of bed, put on jeans and a continue reading …