war Archives - Literary Heist

Small Big Picture

December 20, 2024March 20, 2025Kim Farleigh 0

Head of a refugee camp can’t understand a woman who refuses to share a tent with a man who looks like the man who shot her husband.

Birthing Pains

December 20, 2024March 20, 2025Lynn White 0

Giving birth in a war zone

Children Play Among Ruins of War

December 20, 2024March 20, 2025Michael Braswell 0

Describes how children play even in the horrific circumstances of war alongside the scars and fears that haunt them.

it takes awhile…

June 20, 2024September 20, 2024Joan McNerney 0

to forget childhood traumas or hideous
events like world trade center falling

Mine Heart

December 20, 2023March 20, 2024Alice Baburek 0

Mine Heart reminds us of the atrocities which men can inflict upon humanity.

Pond Life

December 20, 2023March 20, 2024Alex Barr 0

A nine-year-old boy in postwar Britain realizes, from his own behaviour, what nastiness ordinary people were capable of.

Misandroid 2.0

December 20, 2023March 20, 2024Mary Mills 0

Words drop, disconnect and die
as the babbling blather breaks.

War winter

September 20, 2023December 20, 2023Nathaniel Cairney 0

I left America, where gun violence is endemic. Europe seemed safer. Russia invaded Ukraine. Europe still seems safer.

Love Thy Neighbor

June 20, 2023September 21, 2023Ann Christine Tabaka 0

A poem about the war in the Ukraine.

A Garden Grows

June 20, 2023September 21, 2023Mary Mills 0

Christ wears a gas mask,
shudders as Putin’s machine

Superlatives

June 20, 2023September 21, 2023Michelle Reale 0

Centered on the often chaotic and ridiculous nature of existence.

If Love Turns to Hate … Socks Knocked Off, Gloves Peeled Off

December 20, 2022March 20, 2023Amrita Valan 0

When Love becomes silent cold war … Is it Hate? Is it Dependency or is it fear of changes? Deception seems to be the winner.

Russia’s war invading Ukraine

September 20, 2022December 20, 2022Colin Ian Jeffery 0

Monstrous Putin, bloody Russian dictator, wading in blood
Vile creature isolated in ivory tower using murder and terror

The Finch’s Song

June 20, 2022September 20, 2022John Sieber 0

Someone who has made an eternal decision, to find that perhaps the outcome isn’t exactly what they expected.

Taps – The Final Salute

June 20, 2022September 20, 2022Ann Christine Tabaka 6

My brother’s military funeral in the pouring rain.

The Voice of Truth

June 20, 2022September 20, 2022Anissa Sboui 0

About Shireen Abu Aqla the Palestinian reporter.

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