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Pulse 4 Jun 2013 | 03:03 pm
You feel for it, two fingers under the jaw, right where the ear begins its curvature, unfurling the rumor that the blood still runs, coursing red and loud. you are proud that your years hardly betray ...
A Trick of the Light 18 Nov 2012 | 08:55 pm
~ I tell no one, but it’s been two, no — three months now — that I haven’t been sleeping straight through the night. My sleep is haunted by random thoughts and images, flashing memories that I can’t s...
Girl + Gun(s) 29 Oct 2012 | 06:22 pm
. Guns are every day objects here, this being a war zone and all. I see them all day, slung across the chests our Gurkha guards, dangling from belts, holstered at the waist, clasped in hand by men wal...
Uga – The New Foe Gras 28 Sep 2012 | 08:35 pm
. Deprivation does strange things to people. Case in point: all the Pinoys here on camp who, plied with DIFAC (dining facility) food day in and day out, crave collectively for uga or dried fish. Yes, ...
The Getaway Bag 21 Sep 2012 | 08:30 am
. When I signed up for this gig, one of the things the powers that be asked of us was to keep a small backpack ready to go in case of an emergency evacuation. They instructed us that the backpack shou...
To The Bunkers We Go 19 Sep 2012 | 01:18 pm
. . There’s been some added excitement to our days these past weeks. Afghanistan is in the news again, and like all the recent salvos in this dusty corner of the world, the excitement was explosive. L...
Kabul: The Box Always Wins 16 Sep 2012 | 11:04 am
I’ve been stuck in Kabul since November of last year, and I’m showing the effects of it. I have been consistently short-tempered this year, prone to anger, easily annoyed by the littlest of things. Li...
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 13 Sep 2012 | 07:26 pm
During that week-long break I spent in Penang, I casually took up smoking again. No, I have no excuse–it was break, so I wasn’t stressed. I guess I should own up to it–I went back to nicotine to have ...
All Quiet on the Afghan Front 1 Oct 2011 | 06:33 am
Friday is everyone’s day off, and most of the guys here, exhausted from the 10- to 14-hour-day work week, would shut themselves up in their rooms and sleep it off. I’m the only one that takes the day ...
A Promise of Flowers in the Desert 17 Jul 2011 | 06:00 am
I’m not sure why guys here feel the need to urge me on with promises of gifts or favors or the moon at my feet. News flash: I work here, if you need something, it’s sort of my responsibility to help y...
