December 20 • 1995
‘From Basra to Bethlehem’ by Tom Paine; Mann Cops Out in Heat; Holiday Horoscopes; Building a Better Music Box; Sojo Stirs It Up;
From Basra to Bethlehem: a short story for the season
It was up there on the Kuwaiti-Saudi border back on Christmas Eve, 1990. Right on the goddamn border. Saudis had a big sand berm 20 feet high that ran the whole border, and every thousand feet or so in the sand berm was a big concrete fortress we called the Alamo. Saudi border guards were…
