DJ Swykert — The Monarch Review

Orchestration – DJ Swykert

Tuesday, April 3, 2012 13:09 — 0 Comments

The bullets screech through the air like notes off the strings of a violin. I respond with a burst of fire from my rifle instead of a wave of my baton. I am conducting a symphony in the key of M16 major. I stand at my podium in a foxhole wishing the movement would end–the applause would come and I could take a bow and return to my dressing room. A soldier strikes a single chord when a bullet pierces his chest. He is only a few yards from me. I hear him groan. His body arches backwards and falls […]