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Working on a few new projects here in Catalunya from my recent trip to Iraq. \u00a92016 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n

Barcelona-<\/strong> Regretfully I haven’t updated TWD for quite some time. I had wanted to do regular updates during my recent stint in Iraq but that whole time I was focused on my goals there to the point where I shirked off just about everything else. \u00a0I’ll be updating the site more when some new works begin to be published.<\/p>\n

Things didn’t go the way I’d envisioned before leaving NYC but all told they went well enough in that I got out unscathed. It was like one of those now clich\u00e9d expressions about war that I can never remember the exact wording of like, “everything is ok until it’s not” or “war is 98% boring, 2% terrifying.”<\/p>\n

Iraq has been broken since 2003 and those attempting to keep it whole are taking on a Sisyphean task.<\/p>\n

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When the nightmare began. Baghdad, thirteen years ago. \u00a92003 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barcelona- Regretfully I haven’t updated TWD for quite some time. I had wanted to do regular updates during my recent stint in Iraq but that whole time I was focused on my goals there to the point where I shirked…<\/p>\n

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