The Sniper Returns

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22/10/05                                                           Ryan Knights                                                      

The Sniper Returns

“The sniper turned over the body and looked into his brothers face” he started trembling and fell to his knees, on the red blood stained tarmac. He hugged his brother, then he started having flashbacks of the great times he and his brother had had. In the end this civil war had divided husband and wife, brothers and families. As another tear ran down his face he thought about the war some more and why, why would the country fight each other? Why being the most important question, why this? Why that? Why the hell did I shoot my own brother? Another sacrificial death for a country at war. The sniper laid there hugging his dead brother’s corpse, thinking what would he tell his parents?

In the end the sniper decided to dump the body down a manhole, so there would be no trace. But he also had decided to make some meaning out of his brother’s short tragic life, he had a plan, a plan to end all the madness that had come of this civil war.

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First he went to see his parents, a brave decision, but he could not bear to deceive the people that he loved; he hoped they would find forgiveness. The sniper stumbled along the streets clenching his wounded arm, until reaching Carlton Road, memories of lost childhood innocence flooding his mind, his body being racked with grief he stumbled on to number 52. He knocked at the door, then again, and again until eventually someone answered,

 it was his mum, she saw the blood stained arm which his brother had shot.      

His mum then said ...

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