In bed, hiding under the covers. A young child heaved in deep breaths, struggling to keep her sobbing silent as the terrified, denying words of her parents burned themselves into her brain.
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Trapped behind cold, plaster walls, a woman wailed as her son was led forcibly down the street. She screamed promises and bargains , bartering her own body for her son's freedom.
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Lay bare on a cold metal table, a man yelled out in animalistic fear and rage as his wife was torn from his side and thrown into another room.
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Down a side alley, a boy led his younger sisters each holding tight to one of his hands. Identical eyes looked to him in absolute terror as heavy footsteps echoed from all around them.
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Still and silent two women clung together, their young children huddled behind them under a desk. Still and silent they waited, and prayed.
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Once In A Blue Moon
RandomEvery month the moon completes one full orbit around the earth. Every year the earth rotates around the sun a single time. A lunar eclipse can occur two to four times in a year when the moon is directly in the earths shadow so that no light from the...
