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Winter 1998 • Vol. XX No. 1 • Fiction |

Bruno

1948
Hrastovac, Croatia

At Kamenar’s, there was a festivity. Pero Kamenar had just returned from serving in the reserves of the Yugoslav federal army. He had been stationed on the Danube along the Rumanian border; since Tito’s break with Stalin there was a constant threat of Soviet invasion.

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