I can't see no light

Chapter 1: Prologue
Forty-eight year old Michael McNamara was walking away from a fellow Confederate soldier after an argument in the barracks when he was shot in the back.

He looked younger than 48 due to malnourishment, his height was also stunted due to this.

Michael was hated the trenches, he was starving, tired, and dirty.

”Ah.....” Michael hissed in pain, clutching his midsection.

”Aww, what’s the matter, the Irish boy ran out of food?” Gerald mocked.

” (Shut up)” Michael hissed.

When he speaking to another Irish-speaking soldier, Michael and the soldier, Cathal were talking about family and the war.

“ (My wife’s doing okay, I have a little girl at home)” Michael said to him.

” (What happened to the other two?)” Cathal asked Michael.

” (Joseph and Saoirse, they’re dead)” Michael said it with a hint of sadness in his voice.

” (I’m sorry for your loss)” He said to him.

Gerald thought the two were talking about him and marched up to them.

”You two talking about me, Irish bugs?” He asked.

”No, we weren‘t.” Cathal said in English.

Then Gerald smacked Michael in the face.

Michael gave a startled shout.

”Fuck you! Go back to Ireland, you potato-eating hack, You are the reason we are starving!” He shouted.

” (Me? You ate all our rations!)” He shouted.

”I don’t give a fuck if you‘re a corporal!” He shouted.

"Nach dtuigeann tú an méid atá á rá agam? Déanaim na rialacha! (Don't you understand what I'm saying? I make the rules!)” Michael shouted at a Confederate soldier named Gerald.

He and Gerald, who was two years older than him and was much larger than the five-foot-four Irish man.

Both of them hated eachother, Gerald often pestered and bullied the Irish man until he reached the rank of corporal.

Gerald in a fit of rage grabbed a gun, then followed Michael outside when the younger man went out to calm down.

Despite the pleas of the other soldiers not to shoot him, Gerald fired three bullets.

Soldiers from the inside of the barracks heard gunfire and ran out as Michael lay dying.

They went out to have a look, Michael was lying on his back, he screamed in Irish Gaelic.

”Just leave the Hibe there!” Gerald shouted.

Everyone went inside.

Chapter 2: 3 bullets
Michael crawled in pain.

Then he felt his eyes close, he was tired and wanted to sleep, it was a long day.

A day later, a group of Union soldiers discovered the dying Confederate.

The leading officer picked Michael up.

”He’s still alive!” He exclaimed, waking Michael up.

Michael was alot paler from the lack of blood.

He then vomited blood, he couldn’t even speak.

”Hey, What’s your name?” He asked the Confederate.

“ (Mich)” Michael said before he finally went quiet.

”Hey, come on.” The Union officer said, gently shaking the Irish man.

The man had died.

Chapter 3: Ghosts of Sionnaigh Tine.
Michael woke up in the ruins of a village.

” (I’m I dead?)” He wondered in confusion.

He felt his back, there was blood and he could feel the bullet holes, but he felt fine for some reason.

He saw ghostly entities, almost like phantoms floating through the air, He felt shocked and scared, he could smell blood.

Then he heard a voice.

“ (Are you Sionnaigh Tine’s last survivor?)” The voice asked him.

The man nodded.

” (Please do not worry my dear boy, these were the victims of that horrible night, They are suffering with you)” It said.

Michael stood up, he saw two of the phantoms floating closer to him and lingering.

One of them gently “rubbed” against his pale face.

” (Mom?)” He asked.

The other then did the same thing.

” (Dad?)” He asked

The two entities lingered near him while the rest flew around, the familiar voices.

” (MOMMY!)” He heard a little girl’s voice.

” (Kill them like they killed us)” A man’s voice said.

” (Not my baby!)” He heard a woman’s voice.

” (The night your village died, you were 10 years old, only a little boy)” The voice said in a mournful tone,

Michael then saw an illusion of the 10-year old, himself.

“ (Mom.....)” The little boy whispered.

Michael wanted to cry, but no tears came out of his eyes.