Female Snipers
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Greg Pius. Female Snipers
Democracy
Equality
Tyrany
Fraternity
Duplicity
Liberty
Majority
Solidarity
Delivery
Morality
Invisibility
Superiority
Inaccessibility
Brutality
Inevitability
Volatility
Stupidity
Changeability
Authority
Eventuality
Mortality
Transparency
Externality
Fatality
Frivolity
Pity
Insanity
Despondency
Finality
Urgency
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Over in Australia Hera, Hannah, Mossy and Colonel Hutch Matterson were facing up to their own disappointments. Hera was fighting against religious prejudice. There was a desperate need to immunize all the young children but anti vaccine fanatics are turning mothers off this vital maternal action. It was frustrating for Hera to keep treating preventable diseases, particularly among the children. Everyone was packed tightly into the United Nations refugee camp. Local townspeople did not encourage refugees to leave this camp. Yet local farmers were more than willing to use their cheap labor at harvest times. It was this hypocrisy that made Hera mad with disappointment in her fellow Australians.
Hannah was fighting another form of disappointment. Mothers were not sending their children to school during harvest periods. Hannah knew that her young students were being exploited for their child labor. Small hands were better at picking certain crops. Little feet were better at crushing the grapes. Small children were expert at catching small pests like field mice. It made Hannah angry at the mothers who did this but also sad for her lovely students who had such an eagerness for learning new things. She had a nickname with her students. It came from her favorite literacy lesson. Hannah had only herself to blame for telling the story of her greatest ever lesson. So her students called her Miss 'Phoneme' Feelgood. When she found out Hannah laughed loudly. Serves you right for bragging she told herself.
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Large sounds of agreement followed this last statement. Then the discussion started to get into full swing as women shared their pains and their coping strategies. The meeting went well over time, but eventually kids bath times, meal times and the refugee curfew brought this meeting to a halt. Everyone applauded as the convener reluctantly called the meeting to an end. As the women filed out of the hall the first woman to raise a question sought out Nahid Fitzgerald. Sheepishly she offered Nahid her hand in friendship. Nahid readily accepted this offer and smiled warmly as the woman said,
"I wanted to apologize face to face. Some of the older women have put me straight. You are one of the early heroes of the women's rebel cause. I am the security officer for refugee women in this district. Some of the older women said you held down a similar post at the Eastern Australian refugee camp. Can I pick your brains about some women's safety issues?"
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