It wasn’t the scene that struck me—gruesome and gory as any fictionalized version of reality—nor was it the shock of death, dismemberment, the unlikely, unnatural shapes of bodies, limbs.
All this I could have imagined myself—could have forgotten, too.
But the smell. That, I could not forget.
Thank you, for organizing this challenge! I've really enjoyed reading all of these stories and writing my own :)
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