Turkey's drones invade Syria/ July 2012

Turkey's drones invade Syria/ July 2012

fiction
edward w pritchard

I brought this all on myself. For years I have used the Internet here in Aleppo in Syria to cruise  the Internet porno sites each evening after dinner and after a long day at my crummy job. As a joke I subscribed for a while last year to an American porno site called celebrity naked skin jihad. The word jihad being used blasphemously to mean one at war with the status quo. Being a non practicing Muslim I wanted to make a statement about my lack of religious beliefs.  Little did I know that my sac-religiousness would put my life and those of my neighbors on my street and in my neighborhood under constant surveillance by unmanned drones sent by the Turkish government to monitor suspected Terrorists here in Syria. I was just joking around, really. However, the unmanned drone sent by the Turkish government does not understand the nuances of human behavior. I am labeled a terrorist and watched as one willing to practice real and actual jihad.

Turkey does not yet have the latest generation unmanned drones developed in Israel. They don't even have the American knock off versions. Still the early generation models do quite well at inspiring terror to those they stalk.

Every evening the drones sits and hovers about two hundred feet above my apartment. Waiting and watching for strike orders; my drones monitors my whereabouts.  I sit and cringe in my apartment waiting for that flash of heat that melts and pulverizes ones skin one to two seconds after one of the drones fires from above. No, I don't look at pornography anymore or subscribe to defiant American porno sites. I am too terrified of further incriminating myself.

I am just for now trying to survive. I brought most of this trouble on myself I am afraid.  What have I done.