The explosion jolts him awake. He sits up, gasping for air, heart thumping...Was the blast real? Perhaps it had only happened in his head, a bad dream. Demons of the dark, his father had called them. 'Push them away. They'll only poison your thoughts. Seek the light and they can't hurt you.'..Naveed[...]
A moving story of one child's life in a conflict zone, in Mogadishu, Somalia.