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Written by: Matias




News


11/12/22

War Never Leaves

A Short Story by R.E Montes







After World War II, a scandalous lieutenant story came to the light of newspapers. These events, was the beginning of a lot murders from retired soldier that started to taking revenge from situations lived during the war. Just right after the war ended, Lieutenant Morales went back home looking for some peace. Though, when he arrived at his grandmother's house, the last family member alive in his family, everything got worse for him. All the city was in ruins but the house was considerably good, although when he entered and saw the corpse of his grandmother full of bullet holes, the soldier's heart fell to pieces. Hardly had Morales fallen to his knees before his mind started thinking how to get revenge.


After the funeral, the lieutenant had made a research that led him to discover that some particular Enemy Squad, known for his numerous assassinations, was the responsible of his grandmother’s murder. Completely blinded by anger, there was nothing that could stop the soldier from taking revenge. The soldier saved his grandmother's ashes in a safety deposit box in the biggest bank of the city. Not until Lieutenant Morales knew all the names and location of the Killer Squad integrants did they start dying cruelly. The soldier, in each murder took photos of the corpses and saved it in an album and with each photo, there was information about the crimes of each integrant. No sooner had the soldier finished his task than his doctor told him that he had a terminal condition.


In his last six months of life, the Lieutenant finished the album and saved it in the same safety deposit box where the ashes were. Devastated by the war and all the crimes, in his last hours, Lieutenant Morales sent a package to the most important newspaper’s office of the city with the key of the box and a letter to be published.