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Tuesday, May 06, 2025

Fiction: “The Rest is Silence” – Rwanda 1994

An engaging, longish story by Brecht De Poortere, set in the Rwanda of 1994. It begins "Our son Lucas had come home from nursery that day in a lot of pain."

… Up until the phone call, it had been peaceful outside: nothing but familiar sounds you barely notice unless you focus on them: the singsong of cicadas, the crackling of a radio, the barking of the neighbor’s dogs. …