INTO THE HEAT
Short Story #1, Into The Heat, is now available for anyone who wants to read it. I have posted it on my blog site to make it easy to scale and read on any device you're using. This is the first of 7 that I will be publishing over the next few weeks. Hope you have as much fun reading them as I did writing them. If you would prefer a PDF file, email me at onandup3@gmail.com and I will send you one.
Into The Heat
~ Prologue ~ We were traveling down the White Nile towards Juba in South Sudan. There were ten of us, all from the 71st, elite squad. We were acting on intel gathered by our point person, Rick D’An…
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