Old Silk Road
Brandon Caro
“The sun shone hard and the wind billowed in from the west the day I first killed a man. He was more of a boy, really. He’d been spotted leaping up from a ditch near the site of an IED that had ripped through the belly of an Eleven-Fourteen up-armored Humvee, killing one soldier instantly and imprisoning four others in the truck’s bombed-out cab.”