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The City of Brute Beasts
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 7 2023
Pages: 418
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At that moment he heard crying. At first he thought it was Nicole's kittens in the garage, but he quickly realized the noise was coming from her parents' room. Without wanting to spy, almost automatically, he approached and gently opened the door, what he saw left him paralyzed.
Night gown and bare feet, sitting on a stool, her face in her hands, crying. Her father, standing behind her, was holding an old razor, which had belonged to her grandfather. Long strands of black hair covered the floor and her mother's frail shoulders, her bald skull gleaming like marble in the pale light from the window.
For a few seconds the boy was frozen with amazement, without understanding the scene, without knowing what the hair on the ground, the shaved head or that razor in his father's hand that shone a few millimeters from his mother's bent neck meant. When he managed to come to his senses, a terrible scream...
That same night the two soldiers disappeared during their shift and soon realized that the boat was not there either. The men, terrified of their comrades' deaths, fled down the river...
Omayra Torres hasn't lost her cool. She said that all this was a fantasy of the children.
Behind a tree, he had an unexpected reaction. Up until then it had been a nervous wreck, but seeing the boy exposed to violence, he gathered courage somewhere, ran across the battlefield.....
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