Five Stories in One -The five senses- Taste

Five Stories in One

The five senses

Taste
August 25, 1944

fiction
edward w pritchard

Corporal Myers Evans was walking night guard duty in the jungle of Guam at 2AM in World War two. He detested this assignment.

The jungle was alive with small insects that bit at his face and nested in his ears. The soggy ground was clutching at the soles of his boots. The low vegetation tripped at his ankles and shins. Sharp briers stuck into to his arms and back. Hanging tree snakes struck at his exposed neck. His heavy rifle was tugging at his aching muscles as he struggled to keep it pointed away from the Australian soldier walking in front of him. Invisible Japanese loyalists hid in wait or marched silently in the dark night.

To escape Myers began to taste Karla's skin back in Ohio. She was part Egyptian through her Grandfather and in very private moments he told her she tasted like saphron. As he walked he savored her flavor ten million or more miles away and did so until guard ended at 5AM.