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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: In a world where children learn about war so that they won't fight each other, the man who teaches children about war commits an atrocity of his own. Only it's not like any atrocity you'd ever expect...

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Asimov's, 2004
Fictionwise Release Date: May 2005

36 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor

Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [217 KB], eReader (PDB) [32 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [18 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [18 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [78 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [89 KB], hiebook (KML) [100 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [46 KB], iSilo (PDB) [15 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [20 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [47 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [28 KB]
Words: 5695
Reading time: 16-22 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format:  Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED

"In a future where war is prevented by exposing children to all the horrors of war at a young age in a twisted form of aversion therapy, 'The Man Who Teaches War to Children' serves a vital role. Rusch takes us through a scenario where the Man has been charged with 'inappropriate touching,' and then explores the implications of the charges and the crime. I felt this story was very powerful, and it reminded me of some great sci-fi classics containing simple, strong, confident writing. I just hope it's not prophetic...."--Tangent Online

The Man Who Teaches War to Children sits in my office. He is thin and frail, his hair prematurely white. He hunches over, as if he is a child himself, his arms wrapped around his stomach in a grim parody of a hug.

I watch him through the camera installed in the Monet on my inside wall. The camera is tiny, but it is powerful. It records everything on the eastern side of my waiting room.

Today, everything on the eastern side is a couch, two end tables, two matching lamps, and the man the government says I must evaluate, the man whose job rests in my hands.

His job is a difficult and specialized one. He supervises children at war zones. Usually, a child must spend two years studying war. The children go to famous battles and then visit their aftermaths. They use specialized booths unavailable to the average time traveler--the children must be able to feel the dirt in the air, touch the blood, smell the rot.

In this way, and only in this way, do we prevent our people from going to war.

The Man Who Teaches War to Children has a name. It is Vincent Margolis. I have trouble using that name with him--in his case, the job is so much greater than any individual that it is nearly impossible to think of him as a person.