I never thought I would purposefully learn war vocabulary. Smerch rockets, kamikaze, ballistic missiles, UAVs. The list is long, my eyes are tired, my lower eyelids are wet…casualties, artillery, blockade, shells…A tiny teardrop crawls down […]
“Only candidates younger than 50 years old are eligible for this position.” “Well, Milen jan, I just got 56 years old. I think I am too old for them.” Shocked and disheartened by the unwritten […]
“Hi, are you from Armenia?” “Yes, how do you know?” “I just read the last three letters of your surname on your badge. Nice to meet you, I am Pablo from Spain. I was a […]
I put down the pen and stared at the paper for ten minutes. I checked the dictionary, revisited my mind’s wordbook. Countless minutes passed. I was still unable to find what I was looking for. […]
There was pain in the upper eyelid and redness inside the eye. At four in the morning, I was alone in a washroom, looking deep into my eyes through a large and limpid mirror. There […]
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