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 recently retired from architectural practice, and in theory should now have plenty of time to write the sequel to The Plitone Revisionist (audio available for free at Scribl). Currently, however, he’s concentrating on photography with his new YouTube channel Coarse Camerawork.
