First published in Amazing Stories, Β Β Vol. 69, #3, No. 592, Winter 1995. Published in 2005 as part of Gravity Wells Β short stories collection.
The Last Day of the War
β Scribed by Judith Claire Mitchell
- Book ID
- 111030579
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 775 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780307428875
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Yael Weiss, eighteen years old and looking for adventure, finds it in the library one day when she discovers a packet of guns meant for Erinyes, an Armenian organization set on avenging their peopleβs massacre by the Turks in 1915. While the weapons make her nervous, Dub Hagopian, the young Armenian-American soldier sent to retrieve them, excites her in a completely different way.Smitten, Yael impulsively follows Dub to France by volunteering with the YMCA, reinventing herself along the way as twenty-five-year-old Methodist Yale White. When she and Dub cross paths again, Yael gets caught up in a crowd bursting with both the passionate ideals and the devil-may-care energy of youthβwith consequences neither of them could ever foresee.
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