Every Day Fiction x4

"The Last Veteran" was published February 3rd at Every Day Fiction.

The memorial to the fallen of the Pan-Atlantic War was a long tube of glossy, storm-gray marble. It reminded Aaron of a sewer pipe, or of the subway passages where he remembered hearing civilians had sheltered some nights when the bombers flew low overhead.
He pressed the button on the arm of his wheelchair and rolled forward another inch, scanning a new column of white names in the blue light from the fluorescent bars in the tunnel ceiling. He was looking, as he had for years, for the name of Naomi Sheldon.