Blue From Hearth and Sand #WeWriWa #snippetsunday #SnipSun

 

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In honor of Military Appreciation Month, an excerpt from Echoes From The Valley, a tale from "Echoes From The Valley," a short story in the multi-genre anthology, Hearth and Sand.  The story was inspired by a night at a military reenactment held on the site of a Revolutionary War battle. And now the Sunday Snippet using the #BookQW "Blue."

 Excerpt:

The setting sun cast blood-red streaks on the lines of small white tents that covered the meadow. Men in blue jackets turned gray with the dust of marched miles rested for the night around a hundred small campfires. Without the spectators, the re-enactment camps became solitary havens for the weary soldiers just as those wartime ones more than a hundred and fifty years ago.

My long skirt softly swished a path through the ankle-high grass as I walked. The shawl clutched tightly around my shoulders offered little protection against the evening dampness. An occasional soldier would touch the brim of his short-billed cap as I passed. There were few women in the camps, and always acknowledged, even on the eve of battle.

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Hearth and Sand: Stories from the Front Lines and the Homefront

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