* Edward Falco's "Winter Storms" (short story, non-genre)

This is a dark political story about US occupation of Iraq. A US journalist who won't toe the official line of US Army is, in a way, handed over to jihadis. She saves herself by compromising the US spy who did her in, inadvertently also getting 3 little children killed. Now she's both nursing a guilt about killed children, & is fearful US authorities will consider her act treason.

That's about the first half of the story. Second half just drags on pointlessly, adding word count but not anything else to the story.

Fact sheet.

First published: Playboy, May 2007.
Rating: B

Note: Why is this post so short?