Smoke was erupting from his engine. One more press of my trigger and his Messerschmitt would be no more.
I had won the fight, but it was the wrong time to deny a family their son for Christmas.
I banked hard right and into the clouds. The fight could wait.
Chris is a Network Manager involved in many aspects of IT. He has a love of writing short stories and technical articles, photography, and playing the guitar. He is from Dudley in the Black Country. He is also a member of The Oldbury Writing Group.
Chris, it’s a nice sentiment, nicely phrased. Alas, it wasn’t the prevailing sentiment in the early 1940s, when I was growing up.
Maybe not Alex, but it’s nice to just do right as a famous poet once said.