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Outside the window, there was a tapping on the boards to be pulled off and let in. He stood there still and as quiet as possible. Was it ghosts or skinheads? His eyes were swimming in tears.
The sound circled the street, walking from first to last building, a weapon behind its back.
Dreadfully the early days he moved here he hammered in those nails as quickly as his crippled hands would allow, visioning the wood coffins in Lety, and the one for his father.
The windows weren’t boarded up to keep out the chill, but the skinheads breaking their windows each week when they tossed bottles with gasoline into their homes.
Why were they doing this? He heard a young skinhead boy ask for forgiveness to a expecting Gypsy woman after he threw stones
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His eyes looked a crack in a board, the black sky and cities dark ghetto where he saw skinheads roaming about, pounding on the windows to be let in, chewing and exchanging cussing schemes of conflict, wavering with wrath.
Luca delivered his once a night prayers in gloom, sitting on a chair in bordering the windowpane.
“Let’s send her back to the camp,” skinheads raged ambushing a homeless Gypsy woman, squinting through unbreakable bitter eyes, to assess the horror their words had on her.
“You’re coming with us,” cursed a skinhead, spitting his sharp terms.
“No, please—” she cried, timorously with her accent coming out strong.
They refused to respond or give consciousness to her cry, however they did express amusement at how whitish she all of a sudden gave the impression of
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She heard a child crying from an apartment building and screamed to them, but no one came to rescue. Every single one was too petrified and hid in fright, similar to Luca hiding in the shadows. They all buried there, locking themselves inside, their individual penitentiary.
The woman turned her head, groaning and shaking to Luca, whose eyes found him. He was too numb to really see this. The Czech skinheads beating her were only eighteen, possibly, a few years younger. The guards at Lety were as well undeveloped. Most were no more than thirty, and they had families too that weren’t different from the ones they murdered.
That was the sort of world Luca Kloc a holocaust survivor lived in now. This was his self-righteous country. He thought he would’ve been in safe hands following the war, however he never left Lety since the camp became the street.
He wanted to stand up without delay, to bring cowering to an end, put a stop to these groundless slaughters that relentlessly threatened him. He wanted to be fearless. He used to be in the past whilst he was just a young man, although not tonight—tonight he would shudder in indignity.
A gloomy light slanted through the boarded filthy window.
He froze for a moment, but stopped when he realized it was just a car passing

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