Friday Story Bazaar ~ Tale Fifty-Four

Break Free…

by
Alexander M Zoltai

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Muzar was carrying his wife, Yaleza, in the glare of explosions, to the refugee spacecraft…

The attackers had arrived suddenly, from the dark side of  Bulon’s moon, and devastated eighty percent of the land…

Their children had been killed in the bombings…

Yaleza hadn’t wanted to go—wanted to die on the spot…

Muzar had dragged her from the building and, after she’d passed out, carried her toward the outlawed spaceport.

Muzar laid his wife down near t...