"Veteran? That's an odd name for a girl," said the newbie. "Why are you called veteran?"
A blast from a nearby building vaporized him almost instantly.
"Because I've been playing this game for a very long time," she answered, right after shooting the alien on the roof.
[Written for #vss365 - very short stories 365 - a flash fiction writing challenge on Twitter.]
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Memento mori: A Collection of Very Short Stories and Prose Poems
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