The Bullet and the Flesh

"The Bullet and the Flesh" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by Australian authors David Conyers and David Kernot. It features Major Harrison Peel, a recurrent character in Conyers' Mythos fiction.
==Synopsis==
A pair of covert-operations soldiers must deal with a despotic colonel, child soldiers, and a rampaging Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath in the remote scrublands of Zimbabwe.
==Characters==
*Major Harrison Peel, a former Australian Army officer, now a contractor for the National Security Agency.
*Sergeant Emerson Ash, an intelligence analyst for the Australian Defence Force.
*Ngqobile, a ten-year-old Zimbabwean boy forced to serve as a soldier by a tyrannical colonel.
==Publication History==
"The Bullet and the Flesh" was published in the Brian M. Sammons/Glynn Owen Barrass-edited anthology World War Cthulhu in 2014 and was later included in the collections The Temporal Deceptions and The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2014.
Category:Expanded Mythos Works
Category:David Conyers works
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