Dreaming of Armageddon

Based on the tellings of real people, these short stories show the difficulties of acclimatising to a new country and culture, the traumas of war and simply surviving each new day that comes with even more hardships than the previous. You can never know what someone has been through until they tell you, and everyone has their own past they might want to hide, their own demons that they are trying to make disappear. Sometimes, we think we know it all, but we will never learn what the world is really like if we just stay idly by, running only in our own lane.

*The names, and certain elements, in these stories are altered to protect the privacy of the tellers of these stories. Their nationalities, however, are kept and written at the top of each chapter together with an imaginary name.