The Quiet Librarian

by Allen Eskens

“Men have the capacity for good as much as they have the capacity for cruelty. What is right and what is wrong is written on our hearts. But when there is war, men follow what they choose to follow and rationalize the evil they do. The Serbs see this as their country. They see us as a blight. They are told that the only way to have peace is to expel us or kill us. When such are the words they hear every minute of every day, it becomes too loud for them to listen to their hearts. They will do terrible things and believe they are doing what is right.”

I have come to believe that the world is overpopulated by men who will take the path of cruelty far too easily.”

If she was going to die anyway, why not die hunting them down?

Turn right and become a refugee. Turn left and be a hunter. Nura turned left.