If the City Lights were Grey
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Last published Wed, Jul 2, 2025
When lives from the different corners of the world meet in Minsk, 1992 trying to escape their darkest pasts: the death of family, the post agony of the recent Soviet-Afghan war, the killed childhood and rotting memories that were left in their countries, they found something from each other that made these hauntings lessen. Although Minsk is no different from what they are escaping from, they sealed a life within each other that is supposedly unreachable from how cold and dark the world could be.
If the city lights were grey, what could have happened?
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