HE KILLED MY MUM (July 2001)

   Saranda left the main noisy road and swung into Lilly Street where the trees provided patches of shade along the way. All the same, the afternoon sun was blisteringly hot and she sweltered...

So close and yet so far apart...

    When the school finished, Saranda saw the familiar car waiting outside her school.     "Mrs Hysa," she screamed in panic and sat inside the car thinking something...

DOHA

    Saranda closely watched the girl sitting next to her. She was also new, in this country, in this Islamic College. Doha was her name. She was quiet and shy always hiding behind her...

KATHY - AN ABORIGINAL GIRL

Just as the first light appeared in the morning, they heard a scream.    "That was Mum!" Saranda cried, jumping up from bed. "Something's wrong!" She ran to the door.    "It's one...

WELCOME TO DARK AND SHADOWLESS WORLD

   The sky was dull and grey with black and purple tingles. Saranda felt along their low spiky fence with her hand till she found the gate. The front litghts from Mrs Hysa's car outlined the...

UPDATE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE WARS IN THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

During the final months of the Bosnian War, nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys were systematically killed in the fallen U.N enclave of Sebrenica - the worst European massacre since WWII. On June 10,...

LOST June 2000

     It's still too hot, Saranda thought as she walked next to Mum and Mrs Hysa through the narrow crowded South Terrace and listening to their conversation about Islam. She was...