"Be seated against the wall." The teacher opened his mouth, a ferocious anathema forming on hollow air. Ghaith cocked his head forward ever so slightly and the hot air dribbled into silence. The teacher had so often told himself and his students that death was nothing to fear in a good cause that...
I didn't even make it into the high school yearbook. People who cringe at life don't make much headway. Was this the result of nature of nurture? I shied away from nature in all its forms (vegetable, mineral, animal—human above all), so this no doubt implicates both: nature and nurture. I can pro...
Otherwise he wouldn't be here, with Ghaith, with these other prisoners. His compatriots might have other motives--long-standing grudges or basic religious hatred. They might be undergoing a gang initiation, or be ignorant pawns of rival factions. They could be here simply because they were being ...
57...58...59...60.... There were no more images of the summer executions in Mosul. He was certain now that this was no coincidence. Whoever had inserted Digital Image No. 56 had counted much on Ari's integrity, not to mention his ability to cull an individual's identity from the mayhem. Having fa...