I dreamt the bombs again. So sure that once scaled, if I could just touch the plane, the cold metal would feel. It would understand. But I awoke with clarity, that the cold, the metal, is me.
A critique of drone warfare, Little Drone in Slumberland takes inspiration from Winsor McCay’s influential Little Nemo newspaper strips to highlight the hypocrisy of British involvement in attacking civilian targets, given its cultural memory surrounding the Blitz.
Given the staggering rates of PTSD among pilots thousands of miles away from combat zones and the heart-wrenching stories of their victims, the implementation of drones must be debated forcefully.