Scary Out There by Jonathan Maberry5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() No, it’s okay, it’s a good death.Įxcept that was total bullshit. His stoicism trying to give his fears a last handjob. Not caring that this was it, that this was the actual end. He understood it, appreciated it, but did not want to be written into it. However Sam Imura was not a particularly poetic man. A quiet, passive death that had a kind of bullshit poetry attached to it. A killer of men like him killed by having corpses piled on top of him. And maybe there was some kind of cosmic joke in all of this. Not tearing at him with broken fingernails. ![]() Crushing him down, smothering him, killing him. The soldier was in some shit-hole of a who-cares town on the ass-end of Fayette County in Pennsylvania. And not in that small cemetery back home in California, where his grandparents lay under the marble and the green cool grass. Certainly not in Arlington, where his dad would have wanted to see him laid to rest. There might have been some comfort in that. ![]()
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