Here Are Seven (Very) Short Stories About Drones by Award-Winning Author Teju Cole

Seven short stories about drones.

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1. Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. Pity. A signature strike leveled the florist's.

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2. Call me Ishmael. I was a young man of military age. I was immolated at my wedding. My parents are inconsolable.

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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.

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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.

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5. Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was killed by a Predator drone.

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6. Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His torso was found, not his head.

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7. Mother died today. The program saves American lives.

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Everything we know so far about drone strikes: propublica.org/article/everyt…

— Teju Cole (@tejucole) January 14, 2013