Dwelling

Authors: Thomas S. Flowers

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“The day the VA doc strapped Johnny-Boy in one of those nice Genium poly-silicon legs, he’d struggled like some dopey eyed toddler desperately yearning toward mama’s open arms. It had been nearly seven months since he had to relearn how to walk, starting out in slow painful limps braced against balancing beams gymnasts used. His above-knee prosthetic pinched the hell out of his skin, the gnarled paint-by-number flesh. And it had also been nearly a year since the attack that put him in the prosth...etic, a year since the rocket-propelled-grenade and the crater sized hole through his Humvee and the chunk of leg of which the docs at the Green Zone eventually had to amputate.
But at least he lived. Ricky had not been so lucky. And as Johnathan hobbled into the kitchen to join his bride and step daughter for a late morning breakfast, thoughts of his lost friend were not far from mind.
Bright sunbeams bore in between the blinds of the kitchen window.MoreLess Read More Read Less