" À la minute où la machine a repris du service à la maison, elle est devenue l'objet de ma convoitise. Du matin au soir, je ne voyais qu'elle, je ne pensais qu'à elle. Elle m'attirait comme un aimant. Je n'avais qu'une envie : faire comme papa. "Sami Nouri a cinq ans lorsqu'il doit fuir avec sa famille l'Afghanistan et le régime des talibans. D'abord pour l'Iran, ensuite pour l'Europe et la France, dans des conditions effroyables. Derrière lui, il laisse la machine...

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Moonlight glints and winks with a soft hum as girls in soft satin dresses dance around the fire. I can taste notes of empty forests and flowers smeared with blood on my tongue. Different reasons of their betrayal plague my mind. I opt to scream inward and swallow the lump in my throat. I see the candles lighting the wooden staircases of the haunted castle as I step in. The sight reminds me of when I was a child and held bears made of cotton tightly out of fear when I was left alone. I ...