~Short Fiction Index~
//A collection of my microfiction
//Some stories I had previously posted have been removed for my own mental health. This broke my previous thread.
@_qolden truth), and because Leah feels the trust she gave Lily was violated (which could probably be repaired but Lily feels cornered), Lily blows up and speed runs all of her most destructive coping mechanisms, and ends up back at C&A in some sort of fugue.
@_qolden She was doing exactly what she's doing right now--having a very obviously awful time, lying to cover it up, and repeating until the problems get so big they cant be hidden. Because Leah is either the only or one of the only people Lily sees herself as close to (regardless of the
@_qolden I think a lot of the fics are just new. It was only with the finale that it became obvious--I'm trans and I know even I was kind of in the plausible deniability camp before it.
With deep sorrow and pain, I mourn the journalist Hassan Hamad. I testify before God that you fulfilled your duty. Hassan Hamad, the journalist who did not live past the age of 20, resisted for a full year in his own way. He resisted by staying away from his family so they wouldn’t be targeted. He resisted when he struggled to find an internet signal, sitting for an hour or two on the rooftop just to send the videos that reach you in seconds. Yesterday, from 10 PM, he moved between the bombed locations and then returned to search for an internet signal, only to go back and cover the scenes of the scattered remains. He endured the pain of an injury to his leg, yet continued filming. At 6 AM, he called me to send his last video. After a call that didn’t last more than a few seconds, he said, “There they are, there they are, it’s done,” and hung up. It’s a feeling no human can bear. Hassan also resisted the occupation, leaving behind a mark and a message that we will carry on after him. We belong to God, and to Him we shall return.
Yes, Middle Eastern politics are very complicated.
However, they do become much simpler if you take it as a premise that children of all races are equally valuable.