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ELITE
Vol.1, Issue 47, September 2022 ELITE

she said: Stay here and don't move, I will go home to
get my bag, until we leave immediately..
I watched her run fast, and as soon as I entered the
house, until I heard the sound of a plane approaching,
I raised my eyes to the sky and found it directly above
me, it stopped.. I was afraid.. I was terrified..
I thought for a moment to run, so I remembered my
mother's request to stay and not move, and it was only
a few seconds, until I heard a huge explosion..
I touched my body with both hands, not believing that
I was still alive, I opened my eyes, and looked
towards my house..
How horrible I saw.. the house collapsed and leveled
to the ground, I wept bitterly.. I screamed hard.. I
called out hardly.
I kept calling: Mom... Mom...
He said, grabbed his bag, and ran out. She don't hear me, she don't see me anymore
I ran after him and he didn't catch up.. I tried to catch I thought to go.. I had to find her.. and smell her
him but I couldn't.. I called but it didn't work.. scent.. and fall into her arms..
I sat crying saying: Dad.. come back dad.. I love you But I was afraid by the raging fires and the rising
dad.. I will wait for you dad.. smoke.
Here, my mother stopped her tears, tried to show her I stayed in my place a lot.. I didn't know how many
composure, and embraced me tenderly, saying: Come nights and how many days they followed me..
on, my love, we prepare breakfast, and then we play No one sees me.. no one likes me.. no one takes care
of me..
with the doll. While I was sitting like this, I heard the voices of men
The days passed gloomy, between the news of the coming, and I felt frightened, and I thought that my
incursion of the enemy forces.. and the fall of cities city had fallen, and the enemy was coming to take it,
into his hands, the number of dead and wounded and killed the survivors or captured them.
increased.. I sat down, closed my eyes, and hid my head between
My mother and I were depressed. and we were my hand,
awaiting for the news of my father. and we hoped for But I knew that they were among the soldiers of my
his safe return.. country, and they came stationed in the garden, to
One day we heard a loud thump, my mother ran confront the enemy forces,
towards me reassuringly, and hugged me saying: It I asked them about my father, and they assured me
seems that the enemy has entered our city, to that he might be in another city repelling aggression
diminish our comfort, disturb our sleep, and steal our like them.
dreams. Here, one of them volunteered to hand me over at one
She added, "We must leave immediately to a far point, so that I could be deported with many women
safer place... I obeyed her as my father commanded and children to the borders of another country, and I
me, got dressed, and arranged my room, was about to go with him, but I looked at my house..
I found my mother preparing some food, and so I remembered, and said: My doll..
preparing two bags, one in which she puts my Here he said: What doll? There they will give you
clothes, and a larger one in which she puts her beautiful dolls..
clothes. I said as I started to cry: I want my doll.. my father
And she gave me my little bag, and said: Carry it bought it for me.. and my mother sewed her clothes..
behind your back, as you were when you went to and played with it with my grandmother..
school, He said disapprovingly: What is the benefit of a doll
I found it heavier than before, so she said: I put a lot in these circumstances? He added: "Come on, hurry
of food and water in it, because we will be on the up...the enemy forces are on the boarders of the city...
road for a long time, before we reach a place where I said while clinging to the ground refusing to leave:
there is food and drink. If the mother dies, the father is lost, the house is
So I did, and I found my mother carrying my bag of destroyed, and the homeland is usurped, look for me
for my doll...
clothes, and going down the stairs, and crossed the
Back street holding me with one hand and carrying the bag
Back
in the other hand, and she sat me in the small garden
To FEPS opposite our house, and put the bag next to me, and 6
To FEPS
To FEPS