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Thorn In The Heart

the Party that he did not kill a reactionary in his village. So Mr.
Chairman Ho gave him a death penalty. You will be like him if
you do not cooperate with us." In a low, hard and sharp voice,
he said.

A naked woman cowered onto the wall corner and stared at
an officer’s face in the quiet of afraid, while he was ordering his
soldiers forcing her out of the corner. It seemed she was too
afraid and lost her soul since she did not cry, screams even
struggle to resist or fight against them. They took a turn to
torture and raped her after they had tied her arms and feet on the
ladder.

After playing the evil game on her body, an officer bent a
steel wire and twisted the wires together, drove it slowly into her
vagina. She broke up loudly, screaming out in her painful
suffering, struggled and fell to a faint. In suddenly they pulled
the steel wire out of her vagina by the rapid speed. She twisted
her body at the last time and her head bent down against her
right shoulder then quiet.

A Viet-Minh officer blew out the candlelight on the top of
rice-mill, ordered his soldiers are putting two dead bodies into
big bags and dragged them out of the storehouse. Nguyen
watched them moving two big bags of dead bodies like the evils
appearing in the darkness such as the image of evils' story,
which his grandparent had to tell him.

Nguyen was afraid, moving slowly out of the dog-hole after
five Viet-Minh soldiers had left the storehouse. Nguyen tiptoed
back toward the house on the old way in the secret, and at the
same time, he had paid attention over the area of his grandparent
back house. He saw a guard holding a rifle at the back gate. Few
soldiers stood in the shadow of the brick wall and turned their
face around to watch all the areas. Another walked around on
the backyard. Sometimes he stopped to listen for the strange
sound and stepping again in his attention.
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