Fiction
Interfaith Conflict
That pesky problem of induction
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9 min readNov 13, 2022
A latch was broken and the cockpit door kept swinging open. I stared out through the doorway and the windshield until I saw it: a burst of German anti-aircraft fire lighting the distant clouds from within, like a bright lantern flashing inside an ashy shroud. I made the sign of the cross: helmet, reserve chute, left harness, right…