Digital Subscriptions, Fiction, Litro #102: Dutch

Extract from Man on the Move by Otto de Kat

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The Alcantara was moored side by side with the Oranje, but he was still a continent away. Seven months had passed since the liberation. The American jeeps had rolled into Japan like phantoms from a world beyond apprehension. [private]They had been swept up, kidnapped out of their measly, calcified lives. Their survival instincts rudely breached. […]
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