Nadia
“What’s that noise?”
“Taliban,” Grandfather grunted,
“They’re at Muhammad’s hut, Tara.”
He heard shouts, followed by gunfire,
more shouts, and then quiet. “They will come here next. I’m sure.”
She asked, “Will they hurt me, like
they did mother?”
“No. I won’t let that happen.”
Mercy didn’t exist. His nightmare
wasn’t a dream, it was reality. The shouts came closer. He lifted his old rifle
and paced the hard mud floor.
The door burst open and shattered the
quiet room’s silence.
Horror’s darkness enveloped him, and
fear of what they might do to her pushed him to pull the trigger.
Victor Paul
Scerri
Victor Paul
Scerri lives in Thailand.
Victor's stories have appeared in Ariel Chart Literary Journal, and Flash Fiction Friday.
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