I will survive...

      It didn't work out. It had been nearly three months what Jenny moved to Lisa's house and Saranda from time to time came to visit her and now she stayed there overnight. Her first...

JENNY (January 2002)

      Opening the front door she could recognize Lisa's chatter and Mum's relaxed laughter. They have been sitting on the couch sipping Mum's black tea. And there was someone else,...

Fear is a part of survival (December 2001)

        Saranda really missed Jack and Kathy. She hadn't seen them from the Citizenship ceremony. She only exchanged few words with Jack that evening. He was all fed up with George's...

Choose who you want to please your God or your country?

        Saranda would always remember the following week. Dad was on the verge of a nervous breakdown because of the threatening messages the College kept receiving. One morning...

Children Overboard (October 2001)

       During the recess Saranda asked Doha about her family. Doha was quiet for a long time slowly eating her fruitcake. Saranda watched the boys lining up at the canteen, elbowing...

America under attack...and not only America...

         That night Dad woke them up with urgent shouting: "America is under attack!" Saranda wriggled in her bed and half conscously she could recognize Victor's crying and...

Australian Citizenship Ceremony with a taste of tragedy (September 2001)

One day Dad called them to his Study and presented proudly a letter with Australian emblem. Saranda looked at the letter an drecognied the heading: 'Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs.' She...

Doha from Baghdad

The next day Saranda put the note from the ponytail girl next to her treasured letter from her dead cousins and sighed deeply. She felt extremely lonely on this windy Monday morning. Foundation Day,...