Lea's Load
by B. K. McSwain
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"Leal Did you eat the last apple I was going to use to make
us a ple? Don't you know there's a war going on?" her mother
shouted out the window.
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Lea, sitting below on the apartment stoop, tossed an apple
core into the bushes; yes, she knew there was a war going on.
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Ever since that German guy decided to invade Poland, there
had been war going on turning her life in Rome, Italy, Inside
out and upside down until she couldn't even eat an apple
peace. Lea grabbed the bucket and trudged to the custodian's
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closet for a mop with little consolation that her work efforts
helped pay the rent while papa was away in the war. Fear
Inched up her spine as she opened the door to the dark, dank,
and dusty closet. She steeled herself to run in and run out
when a movement
the corner caught her attention.
Sunlight streamed in, shining a beacon on blonde hair that
stuck up like thatch from a young man's head as he crouched,
clothed in a tattered German uniform, with his arms wrapped
around his knees, shaking and muttering.