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The Weight Of Silence

  • Writer: Keven Perkins
    Keven Perkins
  • Mar 25
  • 1 min read

It is three in the morning,   and the cold in this city has a way of finding the gaps in your coat no matter how much you paid for it.          He stands in the shadow of a Soviet-era apartment block, watching a window on the fourth floor.   He has been watching it for six hours.   His knees ache. His hands are numb inside his gloves.  He is not armed with a military rifle; he carries a pistol that cannot be traced to any NATO inventory,    bought with cash in a country three borders away.

 

There is no radio in his ear.     There is no drone overhead.    There is no team in a van around the corner monitoring his heartbeat. If the man in the window comes out,   he will do what he came here to do.         If the local police arrive,    he will not speak. If he is taken,                   no embassy will send a lawyer.     No government official will stand at a podium and demand his release.         His file has already been burned.              His passport is a masterpiece of forgery that leads to a dead man.

 

He is not afraid of dying.  He is afraid of the silence that comes after. The absolute,        suffocating silence of a life that — officially — never happened.

 

This is not the opening of a novel.  This is doctrine. Welcome to Ghostline Publishers.

 
 
 

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