R Hurla

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“Chasing Away the Darkess” by R Hurla

Submitted to Contest #99

I've never been good at waiting. Maybe that's why my parents named my little sister Patience- because I have none. Cramped into a three-by-five-meter loft with eight other people is one of the worst places for a fidgety, easily put-out thirteen-year-old, but if I think about it it's better than starving in a work camp or being shipped hundreds of miles cross-country, only to be thrown into a gas chamber upon arrival. "The Kolsekis are risking their lives to help us," Mama reminds me on a near-daily basis. "We need to be grateful for what w...

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