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The Sand Fiddlers
Year
2021
Language
ENGLISH
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Jody Sitton
Summary
Alex Driscoll, a US Army Special Forces combat veteran suffering from combat stress and shell shock, seeks solitude on an isolated section of beach, while awaiting a discharge forced upon him due to an unauthorized eighteen-month mission to avenge the torture and butchering of his teammates at the hands of a Viet Cong death squad. A mysterious blonde-haired woman shows up unexpectedly and ruins his plans for seclusion. Suspecting she is either a war protestor or sent by the Criminal Investigation Division of the Army's Military Police, he tries to keep her distant. His suspicion dissipates when she reveals her lack of modesty and disclosure of childhood sexual abuse, retaliation, and possibly murder in a past as dark as his own. She claims she only seeks answers about the demons possessing a former friend, who didn't return from the same jungle. The strangers are drawn closer throughout the day and night, only for him to discover the circumstances of the former friend aren't what they seemed. Torn between reality and fantasy, his realization that he has fallen in love may have come too late to save the developing romance.