Read by Steve Wedd
We shot dogs. Not by accident. We did it on purpose and we called it ‘Operation Scooby’. I’m a dog person, so I thought about that a lot.
First time was instinct. I hear O’Leary go, ‘Jesus,’ and there’s a skinny brown dog lapping up blood the same way he’d lap up water from a bowl. It wasn’t American blood, but still, there’s that dog, lapping it up. And that’s the last straw, I guess, and then it’s open season on dogs.
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Redeployment by Phil Klay was read by Steve Wedd at the Liars’ League Shock & Awe event on Tuesday 13th September 2011, at the Phoenix, Cavendish Square, London.
Phil Klay is a veteran of the US Marine Corps and served in Iraq. His essay Death and Memory was featured in the New York Times. This is his first published piece, and the full text of the story appears in Granta 116: Ten Years Later – visit www.granta.com to read more or buy the issue.
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