They Called Me A Nobody—Until Someone Said “Welcome Back, General”

her mouth with her napkin, the gesture delicate and practiced. “It’s stable,” she said, a little too quickly, as if stability was the highest form of virtue, as if having a predictable paycheck somehow made up for the absence of glory.

Melody didn’t look at me. She kept her eyes on her commander’s empty chair like it might materialize him through force continue reading …