PseudoPod 63: The Western Front
Show Notes
Remember Veteran’s Day, Nov 11.
The Western Front
by Patrick Samphire
We crawled forward. My hand pressed on a face jutting from the mud. I turned away and forced myself not to vomit.
A shell ruptured the earth nearby. Mud hammered over me. I bit my tongue to stop myself screaming. I rubbed the mud from my face.
When I could see again, I realised my men were no longer in sight. Panic took me. “Wait,” I whispered. “Wait.”
No one answered.
About the Author
Patrick Samphire
Patrick Samphire started writing when he was fourteen years old and thought it would be a good way of getting out of English lessons. It didn’t work, but he kept on writing anyway. He has lived in Zambia, Guyana, Austria and England. He now lives with his wife and two children in Wales, U.K. He has published almost twenty short stories. He has published two novels, SECRETS OF THE DRAGON TOMB and THE EMPEROR OF MARS.
About the Narrator
Paul S. Jenkins
Paul S. Jenkins could be described as a podcast pioneer, hosting the long-since pod-faded Rev Up Review from 2005. Since then he has narrated for Escape Pod, PodCastle, and PseudoPod, has written and published a number of short stories, and is currently settling in to his new status as “gentleman of leisure”. If you feel so inclined you can listen to his debut novel, The Plitone Revisionist, for free, at Scribl.com.
