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    No Man's Land
    No Man's Land
    No Man's Land
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    No Man's Land

    By Anthony Izzo

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    From the author of No Escape comes six dark tales. An ancient evil stalks a World War I battlefield. A man discovers a creature that can bring back his fondest memories...for a price. Two policemen discover their murder suspect has an odd talent. A brand new collection of dark fiction by Anthony Izzo. Enter No Man's Land. Not everyone makes it across.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnthony Izzo
    Release dateFeb 27, 2011
    ISBN9781458190895
    No Man's Land
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    Anthony Izzo

    Anthony Izzo is the author of 17 thrillers. He enjoys writing tales of mayhem that include anything from zombies to psycho killers to murderous shapeshifters. Anthony was a judge for the Buffalo Dreams screenplay competition. He recently had a story appear in the "SNAFU: Future Warfare" anthology. When not writing, he enjoys playing loud guitar, reading crime novels, and giving craft beers a good home. He makes his home in Western New York and features Buffalo prominently in his work.

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      No Man's Land - Anthony Izzo

      No Man's Land

      Dark Fiction

      by Anthony Izzo

      Copyright © 2011 Anthony Izzo

      Smashwords Edition

      ISBN: 978-1-4581-9089-5

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re re-reading this book and did not purchase it or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination, or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, is coincidental.

      No Man’s Land

      Hopkins ventured a peek over the trench’s edge. He saw the crater-pocked landscape of No-Man’s land, illuminated by the moonlight spilling from the clear sky. In the distance he could see the twisted bodies of his comrades, backs arched, caught in the German barbed wire. He ventured that peek against the chance of taking a sniper’s bullet because of what the men had said. At night, freezing and huddled together, they whispered of something far worse than mustard gas, or the artillery shells that vaporized men in their tracks. Something lived in No-Man’s Land. And two nights ago, it had taken Private George Entwhitsle.

      He lowered his head, breathed in the chilly air. He rubbed his hands together for warmth, looked at the ground and saw the dead man. One eye opened and staring, the other a black hole where a machine gun bullet had torn through. They hadn’t had time to bury him properly. He thought the man’s last name was Gregor.

      Lots of them around. Some half-buried in the mud, others with faces missing, some bloated and gassy. He had seen enough dead men, not what he’d expected when he joined. But what had he expected? The Huns to pack up their guns and flee in terror at the sight of the Yanks?

      When the war broke out, Hopkins had practically run to the recruiting station. There had been one of the new recruiting posters on the brick wall outside, the one with the severe-looking guy in the top hat. Pointing at him and scowling with those bushy white eyebrows. It had seemed like he was off on an adventure. A sail across the Atlantic where he would be greeted by cheering Frenchmen. And later, meeting Parisian girls who would welcome him with bottles of wine and promises of exotic sex. But the dream and the reality had been different.

      There’d been a gas attack his first day on the front, and he’d been terrified. Hopkins had scrambled to pull a gas mask over his head when the warning bell sounded. The Germans had released phosgene gas, and he remembered sucking air hard, waiting to see if the gas mask would keep out the poison fumes. And the dead. Everywhere. They lined the bottom of the trenches, poked out of shell-craters, hung in the wire. He wondered what Woodrow Wilson would make of his war if he could see them.

      Now, he leaned against the trench wall. Soon the rats would come out, crawling, sniffing, maybe chewing the ears off of the dead Gregor. He tried to stay awake. His eyes grew dry and heavy. He saw a private named Steven Thorpe approaching. Up close, Thorpe looked like they all did. Mud caked the front of his uniform. Stubble lined his mud-streaked cheeks. A cigarette hung from his lip, unlit. You didn’t dare light one for fear of drawing sniper fire.

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