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Survivor - One Word Challenge entry May 2012

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Writers Online One Word Challenge               May 2012             "Grotesque"                                                                                                                                                                       Survivor         They came by force into our homes                    to tear our lives apart with shouts of “Allah Akhbaar”  with hard fists clutched to the heart. While others hid in shock and fear  and envoys talked of ways  of making resolutions  in the coming hours and days I just played dead …                                               and listened to the sounds of death and pain not understanding how these “men” could be so inhumane. I heard the crack of gun shots I felt my father’s shame  I cursed the ones who gave birth to the feared Shabia’s name. Kalashnikovs and rifles,  sharp knives of gleaming steel, a grotesque show of atrocities, a n