Contents

Editor’s Introduction

Note About Some of the Words Used

The Stories

L for Life, by Hanan Habashi

One War Day, by Mohammed Suliman

Spared, by Rawan Yaghi

Canary, by Nour Al-Sousi

The Story of the Land, by Sarah Ali

Toothache in Gaza, by Sameeha Elwan

Will I Ever Get Out?, by Nour Al-Sousi

A Wall, by Rawan Yaghi

A Wish for Insomnia, by Nour El Borno

Bundles, by Mohammed Suliman

On a Drop of Rain, by Refaat Alareer

Please Shoot to Kill, by Jehan Alfarra

Omar X, by Yousef Aljamal

We Shall Return, by Mohammed Suliman

From Beneath, by Rawan Yaghi

Just Fifteen Minutes, by Wafaa Abu Al-Qomboz

House, by Refaat Alareer

Neverland, by Tasnim Hamouda

Lost at Once, by Elham Hilles

It’s My Loaf of Bread, by Tasnim Hamouda

Once Upon a Dawn, by Shahd Awadallah

The Old Man and the Stone, by Refaat Alareer

Scars, by Aya Rabah

About the Writers

Acknowledgments