Man at War – Excerpt No. 74

23 November 2025

Their only chance was to keep firing until they ran out of ammunition or it dropped dead. Therein lay the problem, sustained and continuous fire was a challenge for a section armed only with weapons with a limited ammunition capacity.

Nevertheless Murphy pulled back on the forend to pump and fired off another round. All round him the men kept firing, and several rounds struck the creature through the chest, arm and legs.

Two…

a cinematic colour photo of a German soldier who is a vampire, riddled with bullet holes, with a pale complexion and sharp fangs, facing a group of British riflemen with determined expressions, wearing Great War era uniforms and helmets, who keep firing their rifles with flashes of gunfire illuminating the dark night scene, set amidst a battlefield with trenches and barbed wire, under a moonlit sky with clouds of smoke and fog, with the vampire soldier standing tall, unphased by the bullets, in a dramatic and intense moment, captured in a photography style reminiscent of a war movie.

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