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Cabbages to Bullets

Cabbages to Bullets

Steele, Jessica V.

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General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798187375370
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 15 2026
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.08 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She kept the garden because he started it, and because letting the beds go fallow felt too much like letting him go.

In a town pressed up against a military installation, a widow lives carefully: coffee cooling in her hand, a son who visits when he can. Then a free program appears everywhere at once: videos, flyers, a billboard on the highway. It promises better soil, better yields, and a community of people who understand what this place has given and never quite gotten back.

But the language begins to mean more than plants. Old injuries surface. Local anger finds a place to gather. And the line between watching and joining gets thinner than she wants to admit, especially when the person she loves most wears a uniform on the other side of the fence.

A quietly devastating story of grief, trust, and how ordinary people are cultivated for something larger than they believe themselves capable of.

Cabbages to Bullets is a literary, psychological, political short story ( 10,000 words).

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