http://www.baen.com/rock\_meet\_hard\_pl... Original Fiction, Short Story, Science Fiction: VALENTINE Disputed Zone Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Quiet, unsettling quiet, descended on Shahinyan Street as the firefight abruptly ceased. The last of the Russians was dead, but more would be coming. Even in a war-torn hellhole, a firefight between groups of foreigners in broad daylight warranted investigation. The locals would show up sooner or later, and Antoine and I weren’t equipped to fight off a platoon of pissed-off Armenians by ourselves.