Warzone

A barrage of explosions had dulled all sounds including their own into one low dull hum. From his foxhole Gene looked up to the pristine blue sky. For a moment he was home laying on the hill out back, looking up at the sky miles and years away from any battle or bloodshed. He focused on a cloud convinced that with enough concentration he would be transported back to that hill.

Sergeant O'Keefe's face blocked out the cloud. He yelled something, but the dull hum in Gene's ears continued.

The next moment, Gene woke up two weeks later in a hospital.