In My Country
ShortStory 6,220 words Recommended by 6 award/anthology sources
"My country may seem strange to you. There are times when it seems strange to me. I wake and work. I work then rest. And in between I say things, and I don’t say things. Because, as you’ll learn, in my country, what you say is important. But what you don’t say is perhaps just as, if not more, important."
Content warnings 3
deathdeath-of-a-loved-oneviolence
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