A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Belgrade.
September 1993. I was standing in line at the ticket window at Budapest's Keleti train station. I was leaving the next day for Belgrade the following ... read more
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I'll be off next week to socialist Europe, where they hate god and the Muslims ar taking over. Surely I'll expect to see suffering hordes waiting at i... read more
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Escape from Sarajevo-part 16: the Proposal
TWOGreat billowing clouds drifted lazily through a cobalt sky. The wind was warm temporarily clearing the valley of soot and dust. For the first time ... read more
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Escape from Sarajevo-part 17: the War Worsens
THREEJust before dawn the Bosnian Fifth Corps broke out of the encircled Bihach pocket sixty miles North of Sarajevo. It was a desperate attempt to li... read more
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Escape from Sarajevo-part 18: Marriage in Hell
FOURI took advantage of a light morning fog and jog the open ground to the Holiday Inn. Fahira was just arriving as well. She thanked god for the fog ... read more
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Escape from Sarajevo-part 19: Dobrinja
FIVEI was standing at the edge of the world with Ana on one side and the war on the other. I was holding her hand, teetering on that flimsy line, and ... read more
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Escape from Sarajevo-part 19: Love
SIXThe policeman below Ana’s building stepped from the shadows and tapped his watch with a finger. I had hitched a ride back with a couple of young ... read more
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Escape from Sarajevo-Part 20: The checkpoint
SEVENAna and I played with the baby while Renata and Olja did laundry by hand in the bathroom. It had been several weeks since water had come to the h... read more
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Escape from Sarajevo-Part 21: Ghosts of Sarajevo
EIGHTTwo in the morning. Ana says she speaks to the ghosts of Sarajevo. I’ve heard many people say that in Bosnia. Even an ardent skeptic... read more
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Escape from Sarajevo-Part 22: Sniper Alley
NINEButmir airport was like an unstable island between two raging rivers. The friction and antagonistic crashing tore at the island’s tentative ... read more
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