The year is 1918. Industrialized carnage has scarred the world in a war to end all wars. A young Canadian man recounts the harrowing tale of how the Allies broke the stalemate, how men fought and died in the mud, and their legacy. A short story I wrote for a contest. Enjoy.

7 Letters from the trenches of World War I.

Humanity; the word for human beings, and the word for compassion. Looking at us as a race it seems absurd for the word for our species to be one of kindness. However, sometimes, on very rare occasions, we prove ourselves worthy of such a word.  A short story to mark the Christmas day truce that took place 100 years ago today. In the trenches of WW1 on the 25 of December 1914 climbed out of their trenches to spend Christmas with the men they were fighting against. An event that should never be forgotten