The Crater (part 2)
Abadai leaned over Gidi’s shoulder. 'We’re here to rescue you. Either unbolt the door or we shoot it open.'
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I want to tell Gidi I can’t take it anymore. It’s not fair I’m the one who has to try to explain to the children what’s going on
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Gidi wandered through the gutted house, into a bedroom with a children’s bunk bed, with slashed and bloodstained mattresses
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'This whole country, we’re all hurting, we’re all horrified by what happened, and all we can think about is more death.'
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She put her eye to the peephole. It was the man she had shared her bed with for 48 years
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Ruth took a deep breath: 'Who decides which soldiers get killed and which ones get to go home?'
View ArticleNaama–Holes, Part 3
At first, Naama sees them as tanks deploying for combat but, when Etti’s car catches up with them, they resolve into trees. Acacias with crowns of dark green leaves, convoluted and crinkly and furrowed...
View ArticleSitra Ahra–Holes, Part 4
Etti watches the numbers race on the gas pump, up and up and more and more, just like the dead. One of the attendants, a slim young guy with a bandage over one eye, limps by, asks her if she needs...
View ArticleAkatziya–Holes, Part 5
This silent girl who has just mussed his hair is really weird, Akatziya thinks. He looks questioningly at the two older women, the driver and the one next to her. He feels like he ought to try to start...
View ArticleRoadblock, Holes Part 6
Once they passed Ofakim, where Ruth had cousins, she no longer knew where they were. Etti continued to drive, her eyes intent on the road, glancing occasionally in the rearview mirror at Ezra’s red...
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