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Archer's đŸč Line

Liberator

A young guard flees the ruins of a death camp—only to confront the one judgment he can't escape. A short story.

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Rob Archer
May 08, 2025
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Screams. Gunfire. Explosions. The smell of burning flesh. Panic. Flight.

But now, all of that was fading—an echo, the smoke of a nightmare dissolving at dawn. Not even a dream, really. Something less.

Above him stretched a vast, cloudless sky, blue and bright. As the young man lay still in the patches of snow, he marveled that such peace could exist after


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