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A WWII story by The Twilight Zone's Rod Serling is published for the first time


Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling was a paratrooper during WWII. After the war, he wrote a short story inspired by the experience. It's now being published for the first time in The Strand.

The story is set on Leyte Island in "heavy jungle foliage" and a "hostile rain that caked mud on weapons, uniforms, equipment." "I knew that my father had trauma because I vividly remember hearing him wake up in the middle of the night screaming," said another daughter, Anne Serling, "and in the morning when I would ask him what happened, he told me he was dreaming that the enemy was coming at him." With wars ongoing in the Middle East, Ukraine and elsewhere, The Strand's managing editor Andrew Gulli said he believes the details of Serling's story are important to read right now.

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