Quietly Silent Eerie Landscape With Night Fighter
Author’s Synopsis: Narrational storytelling is another form of creative writing. The essence of this story illustrates a military unit operating with forward scouts and observational elements. Such scouts manning observational posts are located at a protective distance out front and to the flanks of the main element. They operate as the eyes and ears for early warning. They are always ready to lead the fight on any terrain or landscape, as fearless fighters, in the middle of the night!
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It’s 2400 hours military standard time and he occupied a position on the front line. Barbed wire was all around him especially in the area to his immediate front restricting where he could go, and preventing others from coming forward toward his position. Signs with special markings were visible giving signals alerting the senses of untold danger capable of immediate unfolding. The earth and vegetation were riddled with sharpened metal pieces that would destroy anything with or without life. His warrior spirit was protected for another night as he looked at the stars above reflecting on the quiet sky.
With special magnified glasses he surveyed the surrounding landscape to his sides and front for movements. He displayed a heightened sense of cautiousness, which enhances a sharp instinct of survival. If there were any moving of breathing things or persons, he would detect such within his range easily. Unable to lower his guard, he maintained a dedicated heightened sensitivity within his environment—his desire is maintaining life! Knowing the dangers of the landscape, he realized that a lively dramatic scenario could unfold in a split second and will be very costly. Occasionally, a blasting sound of an explosion echoed in the distance, a flash of light appeared then disappeared, machine-gun fire rattling, then quietness sets in. He had an eerie feeling as a cold chill ran down his spine in the misty and moonless night.
His uniform was partially wet and the slight chill down his spine grew more intense as the night’s rain slightly drizzled. At times, he cautiously tapped the back of his neck as if to ward off the nuisance of a mosquito—a sensitive twitch! He had an eerie feeling that the weather was not on his side. A slight fog started rising on the landscape. He felt it was too silent and the thought of “A calm before the storm” kept rambling through his mind.
Suddenly and without notice, the landscape erupted in a violent explosion before his eyes. One could see the whiteness in his eyes from his wide glaring stare. H was dazed momentarily. He searched for his weapon and held it at the ready as he looked through his high-powered night vision scope. Seeing movements heading in his direction he picked up the radio receiver and dispatched a preselected code, “Bravo 23 fire Tango 004!” In a moment’s notice, he was no longer alone as explosions blast away in his immediate front lighting up the night. He is ready to fight as an elite soldier with open eyes and ears manning an observational post. He was the tip of the spear in a forward element, on a wet battlefield in the heat of the night, displaying cold steel of courage from the heart of a courageous night fighter. His mission—keeping his comrades in arms notified, alert, and safe, ready to engaged all enemies through fire and maneuvers in the middle of the night in a victorious fight!
© Joseph S. Spence Sr. (USA), September 22, 2019.
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Retired U. S. Army Officer, Multi-Genre Award-Winning Poet, Man of God, Global Icon of Humanity and Spiritual Services, Global Chair Advisor for Global Literary Society-India, World Peace Ambassador of Human Rights, Humanity, and Diplomacy, India’s Pra?ama, Eloquent Book Reviewer, Effective Academician, Chief Advisor World Parliament of English Literature-India, Stellar Article Writer, University of Wisconsin ”Lead The Change” Agent/Advocate.
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