Roberta Writes – Reblog: “The Soldier and the Radium Girl Part 1: The Bloom of Youth, Chapter 1: Enlist in haste, repent at leisure (cont. 2)” by Roberta Eaton Cheadle

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Thank you to Nolcha Fox for sharing the third episode in Chapter 1 of the work in progress, The Soldier and the Radium Girl.

“The Soldier and the Radium Girl Part 1: The Bloom of Youth, Chapter 1: Enlist in haste, repent at leisure (cont. 2)” by Roberta Eaton Cheadle

Jake Tanner

5 July 1917

Jake spent most of the day watching train after train pulling into the station at Camp Keyes and disgorging its weary cargo of men. Staggering through the smoke and dust, the recruits formed themselves into straggling rows.

His company’s train had been the first to arrive, shuddering to a stop just as the first strokes of pink, orange, and gold stained the early morning sky with the bright tones of a child’s painting. A pall of sleepiness still lay over the station as they’d disembarked quietly and lined up ready to march.

The air had a cool freshness as the men covered the mile to the camp, but by the time they’d arrived and been allocated to their tents, the sun’s invasive rays had dried the dew on the grass and leeched the coolness from the shadows. 

The men were fed, watered, and shown around the camp, and then they were deemed ready to start working.

Continue reading here: https://chewersmasticadores.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/the-soldier-and-the-radium-girl-part-1-the-bloom-of-youth-chapter-1-enlist-in-haste-repent-at-leisure-cont-2-by-roberta-eaton-cheadle/

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