Thank you for your service

a story of sacrifice

Peter Winter
Life of Fiction
Published in
25 min readMay 25, 2022

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The Old Man eases his pick-up out of the garage under the house, then stops, out of habit, to look in his rearview mirror and make sure the door to the garbage locker is securely closed. A copperhead found its way in there a couple of years ago and scared the daylights out of him. Those mean bastards are never afraid, they’ll come right for you. He grabbed a shovel and chopped off…

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Peter Winter
Life of Fiction

Kiwi, born under the mountain, adopted by the USA. I tell my stories here at peter-winters-life-of-fiction. I sometimes write commentary, too. Then I go sailing