Private Ollie Chapter 6

How long he slept was not a problem to Private Ollie. He wasn’t concerned about anything for the first idyllic seconds between sleep and awareness. The time when nothing mattered, no problem troubled his mind. Then came that first instant after the bliss when all the pent-up lethargy is released into the brain and all those wonderful dreams escape Private’s memory. That split-second time when everything changes and the tidal wave of veracity washes over the shores of peaceful delusion clawing with its black waves; reaching and pulling everything in and under the ocean until nothing is left except cold hard reality. Slowly shaking the tension out of his lean, starved body he gradually massaged all the kinks that had worked up throughout Ollie’s body from sleeping in an uncomfortable position. How long has it been since I have gotten a full night’s sleep? How long has it been since I have had a good bed to sleep in? How long has it been since I have had a break… I need a break… “Give me a break of that Kit-Kat Bar!”… How long has it been since I’ve had a bar of soap? Wait, wait, “WAIT!” sleep deprivation causes…umm…LOSS OF FOCUS, yes! That’s not just it…also…also…irritability, and hand tremors! The sun was just rising over the building he was leaning on meaning the Private was facing east. So the fastest way to America was behind him. But that was not the goal. The goal was to sto- no stopping was impossible the goal was to hinder the Nazi’s for as much as one human could possibly do. Thinking that the old goal-less Private Ollie died and fell away leaving room for a new fiery spirit to fill up the empty husk he liked to call a body militarily trained body. Standing up Ollie looked around smoothed the wrinkles out of his uniform turned toward the mouth of the alley and walked calmly over it. Looking out for a second he gathered the all the courage he could muster and stepped out into what would be the biggest pain in the butt the Nazis’ ever knew from a single American soldier.
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