Here Are Seven (Very) Short Stories About Drones by Award-Winning Author Teju Cole
Teju Cole, the novelist, essayist, art historian and master tweeter, wrote seven short stories about drones — the unmanned aerial vehicles used by the U.S. for covert assassination in foreign countries — on his Twitter feed yesterday. Here they are.
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
Everything we know so far about drone strikes: propublica.org/article/everyt…
— Teju Cole (@tejucole) January 14, 2013
