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    Hadija
    Hadija
    Hadija
    Ebook15 pages12 minutes

    Hadija

    By Hawk and Young

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    In honor of LGBTQ Pride month, we have posted a new short story.

    Trigger warning: This story has suggestions of rape, revenge murder, and soldiers behaving badly.

    Hadija skips around rubble in her home of Aleppo, snubbed, taunted, and grabbed by soldiers. What they don't know will get them killed and their souls sent directly to the Underworld. Her power is two-fold, both to know when something will die, and to curse them to Hades. With confidence and self-assurance, she navigates through the treacherous skeletal city doling out justice.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHawk and Young
    Release dateJun 3, 2019
    ISBN9780463056608
    Hadija
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    Hawk and Young

    We are two authors, joined by a single mission - to bring you epic tales of young heroes up against insurmountable odds, but with nerve, nudges by friends and foes, by accident, or by sheer dumb luck, they prevail.We are building a compendium of short stories across time and space all based in one 'world' from a galaxy far far away that keeps interfering with ours. Why can't they leave us alone, huh? :)To learn more about us, visit our website. http://hawkandyoung.com

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      Hadija - Hawk and Young

      Hadija

      By Hawk and Young

      Comprised of Elsha Hawk and Eddie-Joe Young

      Eddie- Joe Young

      526 Pinehurst St

      Philadelphia, MS 39350

      Elsha Hawk

      36 Avalon Dr

      Terre Haute, IN 47802

      hakwkandyoung@gmail.com

      Hadija

      By Hawk and Young

      "It takes courage to grow up and become who you truly are." - E.E. Cummings

      ...

      BOOOMSHAKOW!

      The battered building rattled, threatened to fall, then showered its inhabitant with dust.

      BOOOMSHAKOW!

      The cycle was repeated as another howitzer shell made rubble of one of the world’s oldest cities.

      With a growl, an olive-skinned child who couldn’t have been a day over twelve, came barreling out from under what was left of an overturned desk. She pounded the brick windowsill and stuck her head out into the street.

      Knock it off, will ya? Everybody's dead, assholes! the girl screamed to the air.

      Four Syrian rebel fighters were praying thirty feet below her glassless husk of a window and one snarled up at her between prostrating

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