“I understand your position, Dave. It’s a big story, and you worked hard to get it. But if you don’t drop me at the Europa, I’ll blow your head off. Imagine how big that story would be. There’s no need for these histrionics. We’ll go to the Holiday Inn. You can rest, shower, debrief. You’ll be among friends. Last chance, Dave. You can be the hero or the headline. Your call. Let’s talk it out. No. You talk too much. He started a new line of argument, but before the words passed his lips his brains passed them on the way out. A dirty reddish slime painted the windshield; it covered the dashboard and console. It poured and dripped from the ceiling to the seat. The driver was covered on one side of his head and body. The mess made the crowded taxi undrivable. -Also, someone crapped their pants.” WarActionDramaFragileFast PacedBosniaEthnic GroupsPage TurnerDeceptionsBalkan Book:Magenta Source: Magenta
“Nothing remains. The destruction is complete: love, lives, families, friends, cities, homes – all gone now. All our efforts to be good, to do the right thing, to act well, to be just and generous are now for naught. Because juxtaposed against any hope for fairness is wickedness, pure and simple. In some abstract formulation these things may exist in equal measure, which is to say that the scales balance when taking all things into consideration. But that is fantasy, the stuff of religion, hope beyond all reason. Because for those caught in the whirlwind, in the chaos of manifest evil, despair is all there is. Civilization falls away: everything is pointless now. Survival requires reciprocity. What then if there is none?” WarFictionViolenceJournalistInsecurityFragileBosniaDeceptionsFiction Drama Book:Magenta Source: Magenta
“And now insane men adrift in a world without order formed a line at the door. They rendered unto her every evil act brought into this world by God. They fell upon her with brutality that none of them at any other time would have thought possible. There was once no scenario that would lead them to behave this way. At any other time in their life there were no words or arguments that could convince them to treat a woman with such wanton disregard. No one now asked, “What brought me to this?” Not one of them asked, “Who are these men? How did we end up here, doing these things? Who am I now?” WarActionViolenceDramaInsecurityFragileFast PacedBosniaEthnic GroupsDeceptions Book:Magenta Source: Magenta