Vicimus: I Did What I Had To

In the dying frost of a Roman winter, three soldiers gather to celebrate a young comrade's birthday with laughter, wine, and brotherhood, briefly dulling the hunger gnawing at their bellies. But when the food runs out, desperation gives way to a choice that cannot be undone.

Vicimus is a brutal confessional short story told by a dying man to his son. A story of survival at the cost of the soul. What begins as camaraderie among one of Caesar's supply lines descends into guilt, silence, and th...