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  • More Than An Observer  by Ayushkh2007
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    In an alternate reality where action replaces helplessness, a young tourist takes a terrifying gamble to save a fleeing refugee from being sent back across the river. From dodging armed guards to surviving on the streets of Tajikistan, their frantic race to Dushanbe turns a quiet tragedy into an unforgettable story of survival, sacrifice, and human dignity.
  • still me by guilty2078
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    a jorney from survival to strength
  • My Journey (Memior) by jblayze
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    A family from Afghanistan, are on their depart to Australia as refugees. Will they survive their journey?
  • Waves by raeHenry42
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    A short story of a refugee's first visit to the ocean.
  • The Incidental Spy by LibbyHellmann
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    Young Lena Bentheim is forced to flee Nazi Germany for Chicago in 1935, leaving her family and boyfriend behind. After learning English, she eventually finds a new life as a secretary in the Physics Department of the University of Chicago. She meets and marries another German refugee scientist and has a child. Then tragedy strikes, and Lena is forced to spy on the nuclear fission experiments at the U of Chicago. A novella set in the early years of the Manhattan Project, The Incidental Spy is another fascinating historical thriller by Libby Fischer Hellmann, also the author of the highly acclaimed stand-alone thrillers Set the Night on Fire, A Bitter Veil, and Havana Lost.
  • How To Feel (#2 How To Series.....) by joannewhowrites
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    "Wait for me?" He asked sadness and hope in his eyes. "I'll wait for you Zion with all my heart." I said hugging him. "I love you never forget that." He said. " I love you too." I said and with that i fell asleep in his but i didn't wake up in his arms. That is the day he left. Left me all alone. I waited for him but he never showed. Never called. Never texted. No letter.
  • Argen  by steviejewel
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    A girl tries to keep her family alive as they travel across the Argen, a desert wasteland to find the paradise her father told her about, but paradise is not what it seems.
  • The King of Scots by HistoryNerdGirly316
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    The two princes of Scotland, Prince Ealair and Prince Alasdair are very different. One is the Crowned Prince, Duke of Rothesay, and always on his best behaviour. The other is the Spare, and spends his days doing what he pleases. After the sudden death of their father, the two are quickly taken on their way to Edinburgh but tragedy strikes. One son is left to survive with the Mark of Death, and he'll followed with him.
  • A Refugee by khaldounbakkour
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    It all started when i have just had enough of everything that has to do with war and with people dying around me everyday and even every minute , i was so tired and devestated that i decided to take the journy of DEATH.
  • Goodbye from Nogunri (A Fictional Account Of The Nogunri Massacre, Korean War) by Veronica-Christopher
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    It's 1950, the start of the Korean War. Ah-seong and her little brother, Jae-hyun, are victims of the Massacre of Nogunri. They're on their way south to Busan to reunite with older sister, Eun-mi, where they can begin anew. But tragedy strikes as they take refuge under a bridge and bid "Goodbye from Nogunri". Read the rest in "Book One: The Rabbit Hole".
  • The Flower You were Named After by dafictionalcharacter
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    He sat there with a flower in his hand after which she had been named, caressed it as if it were her and his weak smile collapsed into ruins of colour- the palest hues of saffron and he knew that his world would not stay forever the width of her smile.
  • The golden hearts  by RefilweSekano
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    poetry
  • The Hajj" by AniSaez
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    The Hajj" had retired to tend to his olive trees. But then came the war. One son was killed, two others "disappeared." Now, his beloved wife needs dialysis - a procedure no longer available back home.
  • The way I left: from the view of a medical student in the ukraine war by journeywithduas
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    Based on true events Me and my twin was in ukraine the initial phases of the war . Alhamdulillah Allah blessed us to be able to leave the country . I want to make this book about my journey from Ukraine to Bangladesh , the problems and the lessons and how wonderfully Allah plans ease
  • where I would want to go by RefilweSekano
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    poetry
  • About Nabi and Mare by kdabrow
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    Struggle of a family to survive in a harsh environment of war.
  • Ode to a Stranger  by Mblythwriter
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    A stark poem about refugees