{"sf1_id":608592,"sf2_id":"Rno9P9De","title":"musket prologue: chapter 5","author":"clandestinity","words":253,"posted_at":"2013-10-31T03:58:00.000Z","tags":["Civil war","Male","Musket","Story Series","joshua"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/608592-musket-prologue-chapter-5","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/Rno9P9De","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/99/57/9957b3ed-4d5a-49e9-b7ea-b4b713523a40","description":"#2 of musket\n\nthis is the final upload of the prologue. hopefully soon i will upload the intro of the main part for the series","content":" **joshua,**\n\n**deserter, 7th regiment, minnesota**\n\n**somewhere between minnesota and wisconsin,**\n\n**november 16th, 1862**\n\n**susan,**\n\n**i can absolutely not take it any longer. i am coming home. i am writing this on the last scrap of paper that i had. for the past two days, i have lived off the land, hunting whatever i could find with my beloved musket. i know what day it is because i was in a town but i had to leave as there was soldiers there searching for me. i have just realized the irony of today. exactly three months ago, i was the reckless, green, recruitment, spouting poetry whenever i had free time. that man seems like he wasn't ever me at all. i have also answered the question of where my mother went. late at night, i heard a tapping as i was on guard duty. i looked down and saw her riding the horse. i met with her by sneaking past the other guards. she handed me the reins and only said one sentence which i will always remember, clear as day. 'ride home, soldier,' she said as she walked off into the dark. inside the horse's haversack was my father's revolver. i took that and with the clothes on my back, i rode off into the night away from god and my dreams and onto the light of reality.**\n\n**i have to finish writing this now, as soldiers are within a mule's kick of where i stand right now.**\n\n**2nd lieutenant joshua lucas ford,**\n\n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"musket","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/600422-musket-prologue-chapter-4.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/609999-musket-chapter-one.json"}}