Brutus waited in the mess-hall line for twenty minutes, collected his grub, and sat facing the windows. He often went for days without speaking voluntarily to another soldier. The men and women behind him, organized by race into table-sized ghettos, laughed and belched. He ate much too quickly an...
He woke up around dawn, or he thought he did. From inside a cloudbank it was impossible to guess the time of day. It felt like early morning, but it was just as likely four in the afternoon. Maybe it didn’t matter. Ray had no need to go anywhere or do anything and so spent his first morning at Ba...