Unmentioned Things. Sarah Nick Armbrister

 

Unmentioned Things. Sarah

Nick Armbrister

 

Radiation from nearby nuked towns and cities reduced life expectancy by up to fifteen years. In places that were bombed death would be within days or weeks. Winters were cold due to the lack of power. People stayed indoors huddled together for warmth. Food supplies from old stores and houses had been ransacked long ago but some still remained close to active army bases. The English Army was now fully opposed to the freedom fighters and mounted regular operations against them. These often failed due to the skill, determination and weapons of the opposing fighters. At one time the freedom fighters had worked with and supported the English Army after Wales and Scotland had gained independence by civil war. Military raids were planned and carried out by the freedom fighters in both battle areas, on the Welsh and Scottish borders. The British/English military had been greatly reduced in the civil war and later nuclear war with France. There were still plenty of small arms available and still enough people to kill or be killed. The English Army of 2005-08 that fought what remained of the Welsh and Scottish military/army units was quite large and skilled. Combined with the briefly allied freedom fighter units, the battles against the newly independent Wales and Scotland was a success when it came to limited offence and defence. Peace came after three years of war and a quarter of a million were killed and considerable material damage. Life settled down for a few years, the English Army turned on its old freedom fighter allies and imprisoned tortured, murdered and injured many. They also tried to confiscate any weapons in order to stop any military threat to the English Army with limited success. Up to the nuclear war with France the freedom fighters were attacked and in turn hit back at the army with neither side having an advantage. There were times of relevant calm. Then nukes fell and life was pushed to almost Dark Age levels with death and destruction everywhere. The freedom fighters survived better than the army due to being less in number and scattered about. Sarah and her fellow fighters survived due to Oldham not being hit by nukes. The mission to destroy the town failed. Thirty million English plus several million Welsh and Scottish died too. The French dead were well over fifty million. The law of the gun ruled and much of Europe was polluted by radioactive fallout. The major powers like America, Russia and Red China simply ignored Europe and dealt with their own affairs. This included radiation cases from fallout which affected the entire planet. Those with guns had the advantage and power especially in England. Sarah was but one of those people whose lives had been destroyed by continuous war. It was all they knew.

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Pointless

There are people who saw the bombs fall

They remember the nuclear explosions

That cut the night apart killing our cities

And towns where people had no defence

But we grimly smiled at a single fact

England had more nukes than France

So we killed most of them by nuclear fire

Destroying France which is a desert now

Like much of England with no go areas

Survivors still have nightmares and see

The huge explosions in their dreams

The living carries the burden of the dead

With hope of a better tomorrow a dream

There is only the now and endless grief

And the fact that we all failed at peace

By fighting various wars that were pointless

The hopes of a dead nation are shadows

 

 

 

Poems About A Girl. Sarah

 

Turkey Meal

I was just seventeen

My parents were killed by radiation

They were in a different town

Two close friends became my family

Lee and John whom I met at school

Joined later by Red and Gun Barrel

We needed shelter food and a job

Civil war came so we were recruited

The English Army was losing this double civil war

Welsh and Scottish attacks were bad

A leader called Ged put together a force

It was the Freedom Fighters

We used old World War 2 guns

Plus illegal weapons from Europe and NATO

As did the opposite sides

After a few months

We allied with the English Army

Who gave us training and better guns

Provided air support on rare occasions

The enemy occupied several border towns

With huge difficulty we slowly pushed back

Kicked the enemy off our land

We mounted revenge attacks

All the hot heads were killed

The war stopped after long talks

In time peace of a kind returned

Then the English Army turned on us

Ally turned enemy it was vicious

We defended ourselves

Then the nukes French fell…

 

 

 

Pistol Gift

The first gun I ever owned

Was a Beretta 9mm pistol

I was given it by a lover

He was my first ever lover

I was 18 he 43

We met on an operation

He told me of his life

Most of it was military

His roles and war service was vast

Current events just part of it

In his third war he took a gun

Off a dead soldier

He never told me the country

But showed me the gun

‘This is now yours Sarah. Take care of it’

And I did do and still have it

I liked his gun and got used to it

And in time I killed five people

Three were Welsh gunmen

Two were a revenge attack

My lover disappeared on a minor operation

He was sent to Scotland

They said he achieved his mission

There was no further word

Maybe he bugged out

Or his luck ran out

We spent two weeks together

That mission was just us

John and Lee where elsewhere

Our time included other things

He almost got me pregnant

Nobody knew just us

He was my first more followed

Before him I borrowed guns

Never owned one

This was different

Always will be

I’m a woman now