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Letters and Ghosts from Afghanistan by secretly_a_hamster
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
08 Feb 2015
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Summary
104 letters came back from Afghanistan, but John only signed 103.
Inspired by this poem:
Letter composed during a lull in the fighting by Kevin Powers
I tell her I love her like not killing
or ten minutes of sleep
beneath the low rooftop wall
on which my rifle rests
I tell her in a letter that will stink
when she opens it
of bolt oil and burned powder
and the things it saysI tell her how Private Bartle says, offhand
that war is just us
making little pieces of metal
pass through each other