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Just Different

By Malika Moustadraf

A trans youth relates her experience growing up in a Muslim environment.

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In N. Africa & Middle East Tags: cruelty, dignity, gender, relationships, feminism, discrimination, religion

The Way to Poppy Street

By Rachida el-Charni

A woman is mugged on the street while onlookers fail to come to her aid.

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In N. Africa & Middle East Tags: cruelty, empathy, dignity

Benny Wins Powerball

By Erin Gough

Benny wins the Powerball and faces pressure from his siblling to share his winnings.

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In Australasia Tags: family, child-rearing, Irony, luck, cruelty

Mauricio (“the Eye”) Silva

By Roberto Bolaño

While reporting on prostitution in India, a journalist saves two children who have fallen prey to a sect in which young boys are subjected to ritual castration.  

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In Latin America Tags: child-rearing, cruelty, culture, exploitation, race and ethnicity, prostitution

Ysrael

By Junot Diaz

Two brothers set off on a mission to bully a disabled peer.  

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In Latin America, North America Tags: child-rearing, cruelty, discrimination

Miss Forbes’s Summer of Happiness

By Gabriel García Márquez

Two boys plot to kill their excentric and authoritarian nanny during a summer on an Italian island.

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In Latin America Tags: child-rearing, cruelty

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

By Tadeusz Borowski

A Polish prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp unloads unsuspecting Jews from train cars entering the camp before they are lead to the Gas Chambers.

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In Europe Tags: war, holocaust, cruelty, race and ethnicity

My Parents’ Bedroom

By Uwem Akpan

The nine-year old Monique tells the story of the fate of her mixed Hutu-Tutsi family during the Rwandan genocide. 

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In Africa Tags: genocide, mixed marriage, war, reli, cruelty, child-rearing

The Prisoner

By S. Yizhar

Soldiers round up an innocent Arab shepherd in Palestine and subject him to abuse during interrogations. The protagonist is torn between orders from superiors and his conscience, telling him to set the prisoner free.

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In N. Africa & Middle East Tags: war, authority, cruelty, responsibility, conscience

The Lottery

By Shirley Jackson

There is an old ritual set in rural small-town America in which a yearly lottery determines who is to be stoned.

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In North America Tags: rituals, tradition, cruelty, luck

A Jury of Her Peers

By Susan Glaspell

Mrs. Wright is suspected of murdering her husband and is in detention. A team of men visit the crime scene to conduct an investigation, joined by their wives who find out what really happened.

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In North America Tags: domestic abuse, feminism, respect for autonomy, relations, cruelty

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  • conscience 1
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  • dignity 4
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