Warning: Ordnance Testing
March 2nd 2009 Lying on a gray foam mat on a patch of desert pavement in a wide wash in the Owlshead Mountains.
Flashes of chemical light had preceded the dawn. Bomb blasts glided across the salt pan. Only a mountain range separated me and the war games being had, while the scorpions and tarantulas fought over space in the bottom of my left boot. I was sleeping and not at the same time.
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