… And a river of blood: Teju Cole’s drone stories
All 7, and we’ll watch them fall, They stand in the way of [… ?], And we will smoke them all, With an intellect and a savior-faire, No one in the whole universe, Will ever compare … And in the distance an army’s marching feet (1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4), But behold, we will watch them fall … And we will see a plague and a river of blood
Seven short stories about drones.
— Teju Cole (@tejucole) January 14, 2013
1. Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. Pity. A signature strike leveled the florist’s.
— Teju Cole (@tejucole) January 14, 2013
2. Call me Ishmael. I was a young man of military age. I was immolated at my wedding. My parents are inconsolable.
— Teju Cole (@tejucole) January 14, 2013
3. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather. A bomb whistled in. Blood on the walls. Fire from heaven.
— Teju Cole (@tejucole) January 14, 2013
4. I am an invisible man. My name is unknown. My loves are a mystery. But an unmanned aerial vehicle from a secret location has come for me.
— Teju Cole (@tejucole) January 14, 2013
5. Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was killed by a Predator drone.
— Teju Cole (@tejucole) January 14, 2013
6. Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His torso was found, not his head.
— Teju Cole (@tejucole) January 14, 2013
7. Mother died today. The program saves American lives.
— Teju Cole (@tejucole) January 14, 2013
