It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.

We hailed a cab. The moment we got in, she stared at me with how-can-a-man-be-so-cruel eyes. I felt her glare, saw some of its fiery glow in my peripheral. The heat made me glance her way.

They managed, in repeating his name like the echoing mountains, to mispronounce or misinflect every syllable of it.

Hand-to-hand fighting ensued as Americans and Japanese struggled for possession of the AAF dropzones that supplied the Southern Force with rations […]