The Origami Dragon And Other Tales - Plot & Excerpts
He told me stories that kept me awake at night, stories that made me buy both a gun and a crossbow, and stories that I could simply not believe no matter how many times I heard them. As part of my efforts to chronicle his life, I have recorded a few of his tamer tales. This is one of them, and has to do with the cause of both his terrible injuries and incredible endurance. I had found Rob, dying, outside my house. For reasons recorded elsewhere, I took him in and cared for him. His injuries were extensive, and he should have died. In fact, I think he did for a while, but his recovery was remarkable. It was only a week later that he was sitting in a chair out the front of my house, enjoying the sun and slurping his way through a bowl of chicken soup. I spent years of my life working in an Afghanistan field hospital, and I had never seen anything like it. Nor was this recent disaster the closest he had come to leaving our world through violence. “I came even closer once, Doctor, if you would believe it,”
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