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Three Hours Past Midnight
By Ray Daley
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What passes through a gate guards mind to occupy the time on a night shift?
Memories of the RAF.
WARNING! Contains swearing!
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Ray Daley
Ray Daley was born in Coventry & still lives there. He served 6 yrs in the RAF as a clerk & spent most of his time in a Hobbit hole in High Wycombe. He is a published poet & has been writing stories since he was 10. His current dream is to eventually finish the Hitch Hikers fanfic novel he's been writing since 1986.
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Three Hours Past Midnight - Ray Daley
Three Hours Past Midnight
Raymond Daley
Copyright 14/2/2012 by Raymond Daley
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I hate this shift. We're on the gate and it's late.
Or early. Or both.
Probably both.
Time does funny things on a night shift, Doubly so on guard.
By this point in the shift it's easier to say it's closer to knock off. Have a goal in sight and try to keep it in focus.
Even when you are tired, it's better to try and keep your eyes and mind focused on the end of the shift. Four hours sounds like a long time but two of those are going to be spent right here.
It's late autumn, I can smell the decay of the leaves in the forest that begins less than fifty feet away from where we are standing. It reminds me of home.
Gate guard is one of those duties that suck royally but are necessary. Someone has to watch the station whilst everyone else sleeps,
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