Man at War – Excerpt No. 75

Despite numerous strikes it was still standing upright, although sluggish in movements. Murphy spotted those fangs and froze for a minute as the memory of what happened that fateful evening. Not now!

He bit the inside of his cheek to further refocus his thoughts and fired another round.

Three.

“Reload—(ing),” Private Willis said before being silenced.

a cinematic photo of a British Rifleman with a weary expression and mud-stained face, clad in a worn and tattered khaki uniform, having to reload his Lee-Enfield rifle in mid-combat under the faint moonlight of a Great War nocturnal scene, with his helmet askew and his eyes fixed intently on the task at hand, set against a backdrop of ruined trenches and barren landscapes, captured in a gritty and realistic photography style with deep shadows and muted earth tones.

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