Author: Marie Battaglia

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-05-17

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 9781099073113

'It was a terrible howling wind, bitterly cold. The stormy night seemed endless in the small town, where the old and huge properties were separated by large expanses of land. Mansions of hundreds of years that had once been inhabited by wealthy people. Now they lay dying. In one of those houses lived Camila, a beautiful 12-year-old girl, an orphan to whom her maternal grandmother was raising.Alessandra had told her that her parents had died in a terrible accident when she was barely 3 years old''Some time later my aunt Alessandra called me and at the door of the room she gave me a small bundle, the sheets were saturated with blood and I asked her with horror what they contained, which she roughly answered me'Do not ask and go bury him in the garden immediately and do not tell anyone! ''But aunt, it scares me and outside it's raining a lot''obey I tell you!'Crying and trembling I went to the garden and started digging a well with my hands, while the rain and the cold fell on me and the small bulge, I felt my stomach hurt and a sting pierced my chest.I realized that it was the corpse of my little brother who had been born dead''I had to keep calm and not let anxiety dominate me, but I couldn't help it, war is the most terrible thing that exists, I lived every second in constant fear, I could not think of a tomorrow or a future because I only lived the moment and my survival instinct was the most important thing.I heard the bombs falling incessantly making a thunderous noise that seemed like my ears were going to explode. The constant shooting of weapons, the cries of people who were howling when they killed a relative of theirs. It was the worst nightmare anyone could ever have'