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(Continued from previous page) After Lea washed, they motioned to her to move toward the hearth. She sat near the fire and noticed two rifles hanging mussel down from the ceiling. They had a chrysanthemum and Chinese characters on the barrels. She remembered seeing a similar weapon in Vietnam. It had been near a dead boy's body, a Viet Cong's body. The big man dipped the contents of an iron pot into a bowl. He offered her the bowl of rice and green bananas cut into half inch pieces still in the |
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Stories Copyright 1999 by Steve Gastineau Update 11/7/99 |
